Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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A Solemn warning to dancers. - Methodist Episcopal Church. Tract Society.; McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
This short antidance pamphlet argues that dance is wicked because it leads the mind away from spiritual thoughts.
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De la danse. - Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. 1750-1819.
This manual describes a colonial view of the history of dance in the West Indies, focusing on the dance of Creoles.
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From the ball-room to hell. - Faulkner, Thomas A.
This antidance treatise, written by an ex-dancing master, is devoted to condemning the waltz.
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Constitution of the Va. Polytechnic Institute German Club. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute. German Club.
This revised constitution lists the objectives of a club organized to hold dances that consisted solely of the German, a popular parlor game wherein the participants performed a series of party games to music.
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Die modernen Tänze, - Sartori, Luigi, b. 1843.; Krull, Vigilius H. (Vigilius Herman), 1874- tr.
Like other publications of its kind, this antidance treaty defends the dances of the Greeks and Romans as well as dances mentioned in the Bible on the grounds that they were performed by segregated sexes.
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Traité pratique et théorique de la danse, - Bourgeois, Edmond.
The manual contains directions for many Renaissance and Baroque dances including La Pavane, and, although the author quotes from Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie of 1588, the directions for performance are strictly a nineteenth-century interpretation.
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Guide du bon danseur - Bottallo, B.-G.
This manual contains directions for dances that were popular during at the end of the nineteenth century, including the Berline, Badoise polka, and Les Patineurs.
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Manners and social usages, - Sherwood, M. E. W. 1826-1903.
Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century.
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The tango and the new dances for ballroom and home, - Maurice, b. 1874.
Included are descriptions for the tango, Brazilian maxixe, Maurice walk, nineteen figures for "Nights of Gladness" Waltz, and twelve figures for "La Habanera.".
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Modern dancing / - Castle, Vernon, 1887-1918.; Castle, Irene, 1893-1969.
Written by one of the most famous exhibition ballroom teams of the century, the manual covers a large variety of dances popular during the ragtime era, including the tango, one step, hesitation waltz, and maxixe.
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