Table des matières

Preface

Egil Bakka

1. The Round Dance Paradigm

• Structures and Forms — Geography and History
• Structure of the Material
• Dance Type — Realisation — Concept — Event
• Dance Form — Dance Paradigm
• Characteristics of the Round Dance Paradigm
• The Main Dance Types of the Round Dance Paradigm
• Boycott of Dreher Forms
• The Galop, the Polka and the Schottische
• Mazurka Types
• Dance Names and Imputed Origins

Egil Bakka

2. The State of Research

• Works on Dance Form and Structure
• Fictional Accounts
• The Battle of ‘Origin’
• Music-Dance Relationship
• Moral and Health Issues
• A Contextualised Dance Study
• The Dance of Power
• Round Dancing and the Dancing Masters

Egil Bakka

3. A Survey of the Chapters in the Book

• Chapters on the Early Nineteenth Century
• Chapters on the Early Twentieth Century

Egil Bakka

4. The Waltz at Some Central European Courts

• The Prussian Court
• The Austro-Hungarian Court
• The British Court
• The French Court
• The Russian Court
• Courts of Europe Meet: The Vienna Congress, 1814–1815
• Summary

Daniela Stavělová

5. The Polka as a Czech National Symbol

• Dance as Cultural Text
• The New Myth about the Czech Nation
• Polka Fever in the Czech Lands
• Whose Polka?
• Tip Toe-Heel, Entire Foot
• Pas Bohémien, or ‘How Gypsies Dance’
• Dance as a National Programme — Polka on the Go!
• What Makes the Czech Polka Czech?
• Summary
• Additional Video Resources

Dorota Gremlicová

6. Decency, Health, and Grace Endangered by Quick Dancing?

The New Dance Style in Bohemia in 1830

• Discussions about Dance in the Newspaper Bohemia
• The Context of the Articles
• Characteristics of the Authors and Authorities
• Dance Forms Mentioned in the Discussion
• The Play of Opinions
• Conclusion

László Felföldi

7. Reception of Nineteenth-Century Couple Dances in Hungary

• Introduction
• Lower-Class Dances
• National Dances for the Upper Classes
• International Fashion Dances
• Dancing Masters and Choreographies for the Stage
• Round Dances in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
• Selected and Annotated Source Catalogue
• Written Sources
• No. 1: Description of a Ball in Pest (Fragment) from 1790
• No. 2: Comparison of German, French, and Hungarian ‘National’Dances in a Poem of Classical, Metrical Style from 1811
• No. 3: Journalistic Feuilleton Concerning the Characteristic Features, Social Position, and Necessity for Regulation of the ‘Magyar Nemzeti Tánc’ [Hungarian National Dance]
• No. 4: Characterisation of the Hungarian Dance Compared to the Contemporary Fashion Dances Coming from Abroad (Fragment) from 1831
• No. 5: On the Differences between Hungarian and ‘Modish’ Dances. Fragment from a Letter Sent by Dániel Berzsenyi, Poet and Nobleman, to Count István Széchenyi, Politician and Patriot, written in Nikla, 1830
• No. 6: Short Presentation of Some National Dances in Europe with Arguments for Their Correspondence with National Characters. Opinion about the Regulation of the National Social Dances from 1841
• No. 7: Description of the Csárdás (Chardash) Dance and Dance Music Compared with Other Fashion Dances, Written by Arthur J. Patterson
• Iconographic Material
• Musical Sources
• No. 1: Rábaközi stajer tánc [Styrian Dance from the Rábaköz Region, a North-Western Region of Hungary], 1813.
• No. 2: Ekuzén felel Napóleon [Napoleon answers for the Écossaise], 1813.
• No. 3: Magyar Táncz [Hungarian dance], 1813, ad notam Vissza-nevetés [sung to the melody entitled Laughing Back, or Answer by Laughter]
• No. 4: The Accompanying Music for the “Dance Németes (Landaris) 48 előtt a határőrző székelyeknél” [Germanic Landler before 1848, by Székler Frontier Guards at the Tirolean Border] (Without Lyrics), Early Nineteenth Century.
• Nos. 5–7: Printed Music Scores for Nineteenth-Century Couple Dances from the 1850s to the 1860s
• Socio-Political and Cultural Contexts of Nineteenth-Century Couple Dances in Hungary
• Csárdás as a ‘Nineteenth-Century Couple Dance’
• 1790–1830
• 1831–1848
• 1849–1867
• 1867–1918
• Conclusion

Rebeka Kunej

8. The Waltz among Slovenians

• Introduction
• The Beginnings in the Slovenian Lands
• Choreological Aspects of the Waltz as a Folk Dance
• 1. Waltz with Shift Steps [Valček s prestopanjem]
• 2. Waltz with the Change Step [Valček z menjalnim korakom]
• 3. Two-Step Waltz [Dvokoračni valček]
• The First Variant
• The Second Variant
• The Third Variant
• Conclusion
• The author’s field research took place at:

Ivana Katarinčić et Iva Niemčić

9. Dancing and Politics in Croatia: The Salonsko Kolo as a Patriotic Response to the Waltz

• Dance Venues in Zagreb
• The Croatian National Revival and Dance Balls in the Nineteenth Century
• Epilogue: Further Reverberations and Comparisons

Jörgen Torp

10. Waltzing Through Europe: Johann Strauss (the Elder) in Hamburg and Altona in 1836

• Introduction: Strauss’s Orchestra Tours in the 1830s
• Hamburg Newspaper Coverage of Strauss’s Visit in Hamburg, 1836
• Strauss and Other Musicians
• Excursus: Serious vs. Entertaining Music
• Dance and Dance Music
• Circumstances
• Conclusions

Sille Kapper

11. Continuity and Reinvention: Past Round Dances in Present Estonia

• Introduction
• General Outlines of the Historical Background
• Theoretical Background and Some Methodological Aspects
• Round Dance Types in Kihnu
• Labajalg before and after the Waltz
• The Polka
• The Schottische
• The Mazurka
• The Waltz
• Round Dances as Part of Kihnu Identity
• Round Dances and Dancing Communities in Postmodern Estonia
• Inhabitants of Kihnu
• Stage Folk Dancers
• Dance Clubs
• International Round Dances in Local Mirrors: A Kihnu Case and an Estonian Case
• Conclusion

Egil Bakka

12. The Ban on Round Dances 1917–1957: Regulating Social Dancing in Norwegian Community Houses

• The Agents
• A Historical Perspective
• Early Twentieth-Century Building of Community Houses in Rural Norway
• The Labour Movement and the People’s Houses
• Dancing — a Problem in Ungdomshuset, not in the Folkets Hus
• Ungdomshuset and the Liberal Youth Movement
• Conclusion

Mats Nilsson

13. Dance and ‘Folk Devils’

• The Waltz ‘In and Out’
• ‘Folk Devils’ as Targets
• Moral Panic — Morality in Panic?
• Ignorance at a Distance — Morality and Power
• Back to Dance

Helena Saarikoski

14. Nostalgia as a Perspective on Past Dance Culture in Finland

• The Dances and Dance Culture
• Ethnographic Approach to Archived Material
• Nostalgia as Emotion and as Narrative Device
• Cultural Heritage: An Alternative Perspective to Nostalgia
• Concluding Remarks

Tvrtko Zebec

15. A Twenty-First Century Resurrection: The Potresujka, the Croatian Polka Tremblante

• The Polka in Croatia
• The Potresujka, a Local Polka Tremblante
• Conclusion

List of Illustrations

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15

Contributor Biographies

Index