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This work provides teachers of mainstream and special needs pupils at Key Stage 1 with a scheme of work and a source of ideas for teaching dance. It meets the National Curriculum requirement that children are involved actively in the planning, performing and evaluation of their own work. It also provides suggestions for music and presents themes which reflect topics from other areas of the curriculum. ... Read more

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Collected here are accounts of how dance and dancing have been represented on public television in Britain. The role of dance in a variety of television practices, including pop videos, popular dance programming, and experimental and contemporary dance, are examined. Consisting of commissioned articles by critics, producers, and choreographers, together with reprints of key critical pieces, this unique anthology will provide an invaluable reference work for students and lecturers of dance and media studies. ... Read more

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This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is also a full-length study of these sources. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. Part One centres on the manuscript sources, which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography. In viewing the Almain within its broader historical context, Ian Payne throws new light on the dance, arguing that, together with the "measures" which accompany it in the choreographies, it owes an even greater debt to the English country dance than has hitherto been acknowledged, a popular style that received its fullest expression in Playford's "English Dancing Master" of 1651. The second part of the book focuses on the dances themselves. The steps are described in detail and reconstructions provided for the nine Almains and some of the other measures included in the manuscripts.Part Three comprises a complete critical edition of the manuscripts. These easily performable versions of the dances should be a useful aid to those wishing to learn the dances, reconstruct them for stagings of Shakespeare's plays or Jacobean masques, and for dance historians. ... Read more

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Dance lessons have the potential to be exciting, creative and fun. They can be a time for children to explore ideas about the world they live in, experiment with the ways their bodies move and learn to appreciate this most physical of art forms by combining it with others...Or they can be your worst nightmare! This very down-to-earth book is written for Primary and Secondary school teachers who are faced with teaching their students Dance as part of the national curriculum, but who have no specialist dance training. This book shows how to do it. Ideas in this book will also be of interest to community groups, nursery teachers and other professionals working creatively with children. The book explains how to structure a lesson, set and develop tasks, and gives specific examples of tried and tested things to say and do to get the children moving creatively. There are also seven different schemes of work suggested for Key Stages 1-3. ... Read more

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This is the first book, scholarly or popular, on Elsie and Doris Waters, the most successful female double-act in the history of British music hall and variety. They distinguished themselves in the male-dominated field and in the movement of female artists who, after WWI, elected not to marry, the better to pursue their careers. Elsie and Doris Waters wrote almost all their own comic songs and sketches, created an original gynocentric comedy, anticipating feminist movements, controlled their means of production in the male-dominated British stage, radio and recording industries, and performed together in Britain and around the Commonwealth for half a century. This study shows them to be precursors of contemporary female double-acts and patter-based comedians and ensembles such as French and Saunders, Flanders and Swann, Beyond the Fringe, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. The study also contains 50 transcribed songs and sketches, their original compositions and arrangements, from recordings on 78 rpm gramophone records made between 1929 and 1944. The words to their entire oeuvre of songs and sketches have never before been available in print. ... Read more

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Gendering Bodies / Performing Art is the first book that attempts a conceptual integration of dance and literary history in British culture. It attempts to make visible the role of dance in creating, reinforcing, and challenging developments in aesthetic practice and ideology in which both dance and literature participated.
Koritz integrates chapters on dance and dancers- from music hall ballet girls of the 1890s to the prestigious season of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet- with discussions on how major literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and T.S. Eliot used dance to further their own aesthetic agendas. In doing so, she provides an illuminating analysis of the connections between literature and dance, and explores the ways in which these two arts actively engaged in cultural processes encompassing both.
". . . provocative and stimulating . . . an invaluable addition to the work that is already available on turn-of-century theater/culture. . . ."--Vivien Gardner, Manchester University
"Reaching between the poles of popular music hall and the Ballet Russe, Koritz addresses a series of interrelated, mutually informing discourses in which we overhear the language of the literary community in its accolades and in its outcries. Koritz's book will prove useful to a wide variety of readers; many scholars of English literature will undoubtedly use this book to the fullest, turning to it again and again as a contextual primer for performance issues in their field."--Cheryl Herr, University of Iowa
Amy Koritz is Co-Director of the Cultural Studies Program and Assistant Professor of English, Tulane University.
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In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept the youth culture of the United Kingdom, incorporating the generations' two newest social stimulants: modern electronic dance music and a notorious designer drug known as Ecstasy. Although the movement began in rebellion against mainstream culture, its underground dynamism soon attracted the interest of novelists, screenwriters, and filmmakers who attempted to reflect the phenomenon in their works. Through artistic and commercial popularization, the once obscure subculture was transformed into a pop-culture behemoth with powerful links to the entertainment industry.

This study deals with the transformative effects of film, television and literature on club culture. Chapters furthermore reflect club culture's own effect on crime, ethnicity, sexuality and drug use. As the study traces artistic depictions of club culture's development, each chapter focuses on individual books, films and television shows that reflect the transformation of the club culture into what it is today. ... Read more

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Popular Music was a powerful and persistent influence in the daily life of millions in interwar Britain, yet these crucial years in the development of the popular music industry have rarely been the subject of detailed investigation. For the first time, here is a comprehensive survey of the British popular music industry and its audience. The book examines the changes to popular music and the industry and their impact on British society and culture from 1918-1939. It looks at the businesses involved in the supply of popular music, how the industry organised itself, and who controlled it. It attempts to establish the size of the audience for popular music and to determine who this audience was. Finally, it considers popular music itself - how the music changed, which music was the most popular, and how certain genres were made available to the public. ... Read more

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Song and dance are at the very centre of any nation's culture and are said to represent the innermost character of a people. The whirling, dashing and spinning of the classic Scottish reels are no exception. Here, Roddy Martine and Andrew Campell provide a lighthearted guide to the basic steps of Scottish reels and country dances, all broken down into bullet points and illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams. With further, indisposable hints on the social niceties of reeling, the conventions of the dance and the timetable of the Scottish social season, "The Swinging Sporran" is a hilarious companion to anyone who ventures into the social world north of the border. ... Read more

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Joining New Families is based on a research study which followed 61 children who were placed, between 5 and 9 years old, with adoptive or permanent foster families. Most of the children had previously been maltreated. The study focused on the problems and strengths that these children brought to their new families; how the new families coped; and the factors associated with the placements becoming stable and secure. The authors provide a detailed presentation of the findings from this unique study and highlight the implications for policy and practice. Key factors examined include

• the childrens pre-placement experiences
• the quality of preparatory work with the children and families
• the characteristics of the new parents and their parenting style
• the childrens emotional and behavioural difficulties
• the development of relationships within the new family
• the type and quality of post-placement support

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Vickers makes use of hundreds of interviews to convey a portrait of the controversial actress. He portrays a woman more believable than in previous accounts. ... Read more

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Chapters: Castle Class Trawlers, Castle Class Trawlers of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Dance Class Trawlers, Isles Class Trawlers, Isles Class Trawlers of the Royal Canadian Navy, Isles Class Trawlers of the Royal Navy, Royal Navy Anti-Submarine Trawlers, Shakespearian Class Trawlers, Tree Class Trawlers, Hms Sir Galahad, Hm Trawler Agate, Hm Trawler Force, Dance Class Armed Trawler, Hmt Arab, Hmnzs Wakakura, Hmt Lord Middleton, Hmt Amethyst, Portuguese Class Naval Trawler, Hmt Gulland, Type 139 Patrol Trawler, Round Table Class Trawler, Hmt Lord Hailsham, Hmt Juniper, Hmt Bredon, Hmt Svana, Hmcs Baffin, Hmt Cambridgeshire, Hmt Vizalma, Hmt Macbeth, Hmt Warwick Deeping, Hmt Tr-1. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 90. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:HMT Swansea Castle The Castle class minesweeper was a highly sea worthy naval trawler adapted for minesweeping and built to Admiralty specifications. Altogether about 200 were built between 1916 and 1919.The Castle class originated with the commercial trawler Raglan Castle of 1915, taken up for Royal Navy service. The design was adapted by Smith's Dock Company Ltd to Admiralty requirements for building in quantity.During World War I , 145 were built for the Admiralty. After the war about 55 further ships were built as trawlers and many of the minesweepers were converted to trawlersNew Zealand additions In 1940 the New Zealand Marine Department oped for this class in preference to the more modern Blomvlei design, also by Smith's Dock, 1935, and another 13 vessels of the class were built and put into service.See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at HMNZS Wakakura (T00) was originally a First World War Castle-class naval trawler built in Canada . She was purchased by New Zealand in 1926 and transferr... ... Read more

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This is a perceptive and critical account of the Royal Ballet's first 75 years, tracing the company's growth and extraordinary cultural importance. Dancing through the Blitz, winning an international reputation in a single New York performance, and adding to the glamour of London's Swinging Sixties, Zoe Anderson vividly portrays the extraordinary personalities who created the Royal Ballet, from Ninette de Valois to founding music director Constant Lambert through to chief choreographers Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan. She records the dancers: Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann and Moira Shearer, mould-breaking artists like Lynn Seymour, golden partnerships like that of Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell, through to stars of today like Bussell, Cope, Cojocaru, Kobborg and Rojo, and guest artists who became part of the company, from Nureyev to Guillem. Giving full attention to dance style and performance standards, Zoe Anderson will put Royal Ballet repertoire in context, showing its place in ballet history and in the history of British arts.She looks at the bad times, as well as the good, examining the controversial directorships of Norman Morrice and Ross Stretton, and the criticism fired at the company as the Royal Opera House closed for redevelopment. ... Read more

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Rare Treat For Nostalgia Fans
This is indeed a rare treat, being only one of a handful of books I know on this topic.

The publisher is 'This England,' well known for its magazine of the same name and the pocket-sized sister publication 'Evergreen.'

Like the magazines, the book is a treasure trove of all that is British from (mainly) an era long gone.Drawing from individual articles originally published in the magazines, we are treated to mini biographies of all the major British bandleaders of the time and many not so well known.

Of the once popular you can read about Ambrose, Jack Hylton, Lew Stone, Roy Fox, Carroll Gibbons, Geraldo, Jack Jackson, Ray Noble and so on. From the American drawl of Gibbons to the cockney of Geraldo these personalities and their bands were once instantly recognizable to the public.

Wartime bands include The Squadronaires and The Skyrockets and features on all the major service bands and also the once very popular accordion bands round out the first section.

The second section contains mini-biographies of all the popular leaders of the day and there is a list of ten top tunes from each year beginning in 1920 and ending in 1952.

The book is packed with illustrations throughout and with its many insights into the period it is, quite simply, a delight.

A companion volume focuses on the smaller bands and the singers.This is also a good reference work, well written and well illustrated.

Drew.

Now listen to the bands!

Geraldoland - Geraldo
HMV Sessions, Vol. 7: 1930-1934 - Ray Noble/Al Bowlly
The Last Round Up, Vol. 5- Jack Hylton
Black Coffee - Carroll Gibbons
Everything's in Rhythm- Jack Jackson
Over on the Sunny Side: Roy Fox, Vol. 2-The Decca Years: 1931-35
There's Something in the Air- The Squadronaires ... Read more