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The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: John Forrest
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Morris dancing is one of the more peculiar of English folk customs, greatly misunderstood. Seen as a descendant of pagan folk ritual, scholastic history of morr
The Ancient English Morris Dance
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Pages: 747
Authors: Michael Heaney
Categories: History
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The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancie
My Search for Warren Harding
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Robert Plunket
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-06 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (Houston Po
History and the Morris Dance
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: John Cutting
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Dance Books Limited

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In the middle of the 1970s, a storm swept through the world of Morris: women had started to dance what, up to then, had been widely considered to be a men-only
Belly Dance Around the World
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Caitlin E. McDonald
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: McFarland

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In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle Ea