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Performing Styles in the Dances of the Carpathian Basin*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
Extract
The Carpathian basin is well suited to the investigation of performing styles in folk dance, because its dance culture is relatively homogeneous despite the variety of peoples, languages and ways of life encountered in this region. This fact invites an investigation of performing styles on a comparative basis. Moreover, the performing styles of one of the most characteristic dance dialects in Central Europe deserve close attention from the viewpoint of the cultural history of Europe as a whole.
The general structure and characteristic features of the dance stock of the Carpathian basin will be here outlined, and comparative references to the neighbouring Balkan dance dialects will help to emphasize the main characteristics of and features peculiar to the area in question.
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- Performing Styles in Folk Music and Dance
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- Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1968
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The paper was illustrated by a film of Hungarian, Rumanian, Goral and Gipsy dances.
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