folk dance

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Introduction
Defining folk dance
- What makes a dance a folk dance?
- Operational definitions
- Categorizing dances
  - Hawaiian dance
  - Korean dance
  - European “character” dance
The collectors and their legacy
- The first folklorists
  - John Playford and the preservation of dance
  - Johann Gottfried von Herder and the idea of the folk
  - William John Thoms and folkloristics
- The 20th-century collectors
  - Cecil Sharp and the promotion of folk dance
  - Béla Bartók and ethnographic scholarship
  - Ljubica Janković and Danica Janković and modern scholarship
The expansion of folk dance experiences
- Two American teachers
  - Elizabeth Burchenal
  - Mary Wood Hinman
- The settlement movement
- The International Folk Dance movement
- Folk dance in the United States
- Fused traditions
  - Israeli folk dancing
  - Métis dance
Trends into the 21st century
- Political uses of folk dance
  - Supporting nationalism
  - Fostering goodwill and making a profit
- Expansion and challenge
  - Dancing for enlightenment
  - Who owns the dance?

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