Dance Legacies of Scotland : The True Glen Orchy Kick (Paperback)

Introduction 1. ‘I wish I had it in my power to describe to you’: introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland 2. From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance 3. Na brogan dannsaidh/The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture 4. Gaelic references and continental European connections 5. From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage 6. Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts 7. A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1800?1839 8. Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840?1899 9. Breakdown: twentieth-century accounts 10. An t-Seann Duthaich: dancing in the Scottish diaspora 11. First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin 12. Weaving the steps to the music 13. Echoes and reflections