pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: TEXAS DANCE HALLS
A TWO-STEP CIRCUIT
By: Gail Folkins, J.Marcus Weekley, Andy Wilkinson
Format: Hardback

List price: £37.95


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0896726037
ISBN 13: 9780896726031
Publisher: TEXAS TECH PRESS,U.S.
Pub. date: 15 September, 2007
Series: Voice in the American West
Pages: 212
Description: Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. This title celebrates how these halls bring people together and foster joy.
Synopsis: Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. Writing about the eighteen she knows best, Gail Folkins celebrates how these halls still bring people together and foster joy. Folkins etches portraits of proprietors who give space for music and dancing, of musicians who furnish the soundtrack for dramas and comedies that play out across hardwood or concrete floors, and of people who come to dance, listen, or simply share the experience with friends and neighbors. Paired with Marcus Weekley's photographs, some whirling and some dreamy, they capture beat and motion, even the scent of sawdust on the floor. Drawn in, we witness daytime preparations for evenings to come, and the quiet that returns after the dancers go home and the musicians have packed up for the night. Moving from Twin Sisters near New Braunfels to legendary Luckenbach, we meet the third generation in a family of makers of music and keepers of dance halls.And then there are the descendants of Czech Catholic settlers coming to dance under the giant letters KJT (Katolika Jednota Texaska). At Coupland Dance Hall, we sense ghostly apparitions of pioneer women in long skirts. Very much in the twenty-first century, we share a dance floor with tourists and university types among the kitschy accoutrements at Austins Broken Spoke.
Illustrations: 132 duotone photos
Publication: US
Imprint: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Ballet and Modern Dance (Paperback)
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Our Price : £9.45
more details
Twelve Minutes of Love (Paperback)
Granta Books
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Theatre and Dance (Paperback)
Palgrave Macmillan
Our Price : £7.19
more details
Digital Performance (Paperback)
MIT Press Ltd
Our Price : £40.00
more details
The Art of Movement (Hardback)
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Our Price : £41.25
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 THE ARTS
 performing arts
 dance


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
World’s Worst Superheroes GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
add to basket





New
No Cheese, Please! A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
add to basket

New
My Brother Is a Superhero Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
add to basket


Picture Book
Animal Actions: Snap Like a Crab
By:
The first title in a new preschool series from Guilherme Karsten.
add to basket