Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick
- Author: Melin, Mats
- Author: Schoonover, Jennifer
Book
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. 'I wish I had it in my power to describe to you': introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland
- 2. From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance
- 3. Na brogan dannsaidh /The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture
- 4. Gaelic references and continental European connections
- 5. From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage
- 6. Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts
- 7. A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1800-1839
- 8. Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840-1899
- 9. Breakdown: twentieth-century accounts
- 10. An t-Seann Duthaich : dancing in the Scottish diaspora
- 11. First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin
- 12. Weaving the steps to the music
- 13. Echoes and reflections