Table of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Richard George "Dick" Crum: A Life ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN 2. Introduction: Choreographing the Balkans ANTHONY SHAY Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance 3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance CAROL SILVERMAN 4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern Greece CHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS 5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime's Stadium Ceremonies, 1937-1940 IRENE LOUTZAKI 6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian Ethnochoreology COLIN QUIGLEY 7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to Chalga ERICA NIELSEN 8. Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and Performance Bosnia and Herzegovina LYNN D. MANERS 9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians ANTHONY SHAY Balkan Dance in America 10. "Inside, Outside, Upside-Down": The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance Movement ROBIN J. EVANCHUK 11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the Pines JUNE ADLER VAIL Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music 12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance Music JAMIE L. WEBSTER 13. Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth Century NANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER 14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian "Cross" Dances ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN About the Contributors Index