- Hardcover: 439 pages
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press (1 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0802009212
- ISBN-13: 978-0802009210
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,971,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now, building upon his previous work with Michael Heaney of the Bodleian Library in Annals of Early Morris, John Forrest carefully analyses a wealth of evidence to show that morris dancing does not, in fact have pagan or ancient origins. His examination of early documentation draws morris traditions into the wider area of communal customs and public celebrations, showing the passage of dance ideas between groups of people who until now have been considered folklorically distinct. Careful, detailed, and encyclopedic, The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 is an essential reference work for specialists in English drama and social historians of the period.
About the Author
John Forrest is Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Purchase. He is also co-author of Annals of Early Morris with Michael Heaney and the author of Morris and Matachin: A Study in Comparative Choreography.
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A must for the devotees of dancing the Morris.,
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This review is from: The History of Morris Dancing, 1483-1750 (Hardcover)
This book is full of useful information on the history of Morris dancing in England from the late 15th century through to the mid 18th century. It includes some details on the dance steps and movements and also some of the tunes used. The book also dispells lots of the myths surrounding the Morris and explains the details of who danced, why they danced, where they danced and when. Certainly a book for the devotee which is full of documented evidence from church records and various other archives.
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Morris Dancing for the Enthusiast.,
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This review is from: The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 (Studies in Early English Drama) (Paperback)
This is certainly the book for you if you are an enthusiast and want a comprehensive and in depth treatise on the subject. The research seems impeccable and there is more than enough to satisfy the total (bell-bedecked) anorak. It's probably not the best book to start with if you are just getting into the dancing, though. One to help pass the winter when you can't get out a-leaping!!!
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