Folk dance Essays

  • Folk Dance And Traditional Dance

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    Folk Dance/ modern dance Folk Dance; Folk Dance has been around since the beginning of time. Folk dance is a custom dance that was handed down from generation to generation, it's not known exactly where it got started, but it is still practice to this day in many different religions and cultures. Folk dances, According to ( http:/www.dancecentral.co.uk/DanceNtral/Articles/traditional.htm) Traditional dancing can be another term for folk dance, or sometimes even for ceremonial dance. Folk

  • What Is The Importance Of Folk Dance In The Philippines

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    of their cultural and folk dances embody the hardships that they or their relatives have experienced over the years. In fact, many of the dances display the actual activities or chores that the Filipinos tolerated to endure the poor economy and state of the nation (Ness, 1992). In Luzon, the northernmost region of the Philippines, there is the Banga, or pot dance that was created by the Kalinga tribe. When a warrior claimed a bride, the maiden’s friends would perform a dance about getting water as

  • Folk Dance Music of Bulgaria

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    Folk dance Music of Bulgaria Bulgaria is a relatively small country but it contains a wide diversity of folk dance styles. I believe this is the main reason why Bulgarian dances are so popular among international folk dancers. Bulgaria is located in south-eastern Europe and surrounded by Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. First, we will have a brief introduction of Bulgaria and its folklore regions, then will introduce some folk instruments and describe each folklore region one by one

  • Impact of Prison on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, The Double, and The Idiot

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    Impact of Prison on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, The Double, and The Idiot Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is perhaps one of the most well known but least understood authors from the nineteenth century. His life was one full of misfortune and suffering; his works filled with religious pondering and philosophical discussions. Dostoevsky's life experiences were integrated into the characters in his pieces, both in terms of personality and ideology. An especially important turning point in his

  • Habits and Explanation

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    explain normal human activity. However, they have been neglected in debates concerning folk-psychology which have concentrated on propositional attitudes such as beliefs. But propositional attitudes are just one of the many mental states. In this paper, I seek to expand the debate by considering mental states other than propositional attitudes. I conclude that the case for the autonomy and plausibility of the folk-psychological explanation is strengthened when one considers an example from the non-propositional-attitude

  • Hungarian Peasant and Folk Music

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    Hungarian Peasant and Folk Music I. General confusion about Hungarian folk music. Gypsy music Peasant music - the real Hungarian folk music - is not Gypsy music. Peasant music certainly had influence on the songs and playing of gypsies who lived in Hungary and performed in ensembles, though. Gypsy music used to be the basis of all generalizations about Hungarian music. It was Ferenc Liszt's monumental error to state that Gypsy music is the creation of gypsies. The so called 'gypsy scale' points

  • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and "Queer as Folk

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    became a national obsession. The show was "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Two years earlier, in December of 2000, Showtime produced what was to become one of the most controversial and popular television shows in the network's history: "Queer as Folk," inspired by the BBC original of the same name. Queer was here- in a big, bold way. These two pop culture phenomenon set up a discourse for the pivotal word in each title, "Queer." Examining both in the context of their own, self-prescribed language

  • The Power and Influence of the Obeah Man and Folk Healing in Jamaican Culture

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    The Power and Influence of the Obeah Man and Folk Healing in Jamaican Culture Rhetoric of Reggae Term Paper It's late in the 17h century and the Europeans are craving more sugar for their English tea and French coffee. Several islands are “discovered” in the Caribbean, which appear to have a sugar surplus as well as low occupancy. Now there was tons of sugar but no one to cut down the plants except for Africans rounded up and squeezed into a ship headed towards their new home. Standing shoulder

  • The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

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    The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down, Northern Ireland Monuments and museums are arenas of public history and for the formation and articulation of identities and narratives.[1] Decisions taken as to the formation of museums and the selection, display and organisation of exhibits are influenced by criteria which are not necessarily politically neutral; these may especially involve devices of political elites to emphasise aspects of communal togetherness and thus exert control

  • Appalachian Music

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    Music Appalachee - people on the other side Folk music - What is folk music? Traditional songs existing in countries. Handed down through generations. Passes on by word of mouth, not written in musical notation. Don't know who wrote it. Melody and lyrics change as they are passed on. Folk Music is History in song: Tells about daily lives. Tells about Special events - often tragedies, themes of romance, battle, adventure, and history. Purpose of folk music: Entertainment, recreation, socializing

  • Retention and Preservation of African Roots in Jamaican Folk Music

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    Retention and Preservation of African Roots in Jamaican Folk Music Preface Amid tens of thousands of volumes in this library collection at UVM, the "silence" is in fact a low hum issuing from the vents. I read essay upon essay, ideas and histories of ideas, until I pause in a pensive moment. A thick green binding breaks my meditation. A title, The Power of Sound, fills my mind with music. I consider the power of words. The music issuing from the Caribbean island of Jamaica has for decades

  • Strictly Come Sword Dance: Stone Monkey

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    - The first video Strictly Come Sword Dancing – Stone Monkey is typical folk dance. It’s performed by 6 men which one of them is talking to the audience about the story of the dance. All the men are wearing the same folk outfit that is made out of black shorts, white shirts, red belts with yellow emblem, striped socks, and same shoes, which actually reminds me of some kind of tap shoes. As a prop all the man except the one who is talking are using special typo of sword. It’s not a typical sword because

  • Maypole Dance Research Paper

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    The maypole dance is performed by many cultures around the world. Countries including Germany, Mexico, Italy, Norway, Pakistan, and France all have a version of the maypole dance (Time and Date, 2018). This dance has played a role in shaping the dance culture of different countries. Learning the history of the Maypole dance and how it was brought to different countries can help explore the dance culture of a specific group. Answering how and why a country has incorporated this dance into their history

  • Folk Music

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    The term “folk” originated in England and is considered the music of the people. Folk has been used since before the 17th century but became more popular in the Romantic period. Folk songs are known to have simple melodies and are very singable. Folk music were stories written into songs by the peasants. They were passed down generations through generations. My great-grand parents passed songs down to my grandparents, my grandparents passed them down to my parents and my parents passed the songs

  • The Music in Me

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    The Music in Me

  • Bluegrass Music Essay

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    American Music 14, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 206-217. Mills, Susan W. “Bringing the Family Tradition in Bluegrass Music to the Music Classroom.” General Music Today 22, no. 2 (January 2009): 12-18. Roy, William G. “Aesthetic Identity, Race, and American Folk Music.” Qualitative sociology 25, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 459-469. Sweet, Stephen. “Bluegrass Music and Its Misguided Representation of Appalachia.” Popular Music and Society, no.3 (1996): 37-51. Thompson, Deborah J. “Searching for Silenced Voices in

  • Indian Music

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    also base upon seven modes. Furthermore, the Indian scales follow the same process of modulation (murchana) that was found in ancient Greek music. Since Greece is also Indo-European, this is another piece of evidence for the Indo-European connection (Dance and music of India). The vocal tradition is especially strong in Indian music. It is understood that the song is probably the most ancient form of music. Vocal music occupies a considerable part of Natya Shastra (Indian music). The samaveda is the

  • Lebanon: A Brief Cultural Overview

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    distinctively Lebanese, a combination of East and West, past and present. Music Folk music and dancing have a long tradition and are very popular. The national dance, the dabke, is an energetic folk dance that has influenced many European and American folk dances. Classical belly dancing still maintains an important role in wedding ceremonies, representing a transition from the virgin bride to the sensual woman. The dance is also popular in many nightclubs. Traditional Lebanese music is created by using

  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois

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    The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois is a influential work in African American literature and is an American classic. In this book Dubois proposes that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." His concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition

  • Folk Tales

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    family’s values? Chances are they where telling you a folk tale. Folk tales are stories passed down usually by word of mouth but often they are written down. Folk tales teach a valuable life lesson while entertaining the reader or in some cases the listener. This essay will give examples of three folk tales and go into depth on how they teach lessons and still remain entertaining for children and even adults. The first of the three folk tales I will be discussing is titled The Sheep of San Cristobal