Douglas Kennedy (2)
Auteur de England's dances : folk-dancing to-day and yesterday
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Œuvres de Douglas Kennedy
Country dance book : new series containing the airs and descriptions of thirty country dances from "The Dancing master, (1980) 2 exemplaires
Community Dances Manual 2 2 exemplaires
An introduction to the Morris dances of England, comprising six dances from The Morris book 1 exemplaire
English country dances of today 1 exemplaire
Square dances of America 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 37
- Popularité
- #390,572
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 442
- Langues
- 15
Kennedy is able to state with complete confidence that that the blacking of the face "to disguise the person and turn him into a ritual actor is a device inherited from the stone age". He says this with particular reference to the Bacup dance, even suggesting that the name 'morris' was given because the black faces made the dancers resemble blackamoors.
Ironic, given that the reality as we now understand it is pretty much the other way round. ie. The black face is fairly modern and probably copied from negro minstrel shows.
Kennedy is completely sold on the pagan origins of everything folk related. Hobby horses are 'animal men', etc.
To give him his due, the research simply hadn't been done back then, but even so, he is remarkably accepting of a load of utter tosh. He can't distinguish between 'ritual' acts and things done simply to entertain an audience and earn a bit of cash.… (plus d'informations)