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Close to the Floor Irish Dance from the Boreen to Broadway Edited by Mick Moloney, J’aime Morrison, and Colin Quigley Scholars and performers debate the dynamic interplay between innovation and tradition in the world of Irish dance Close to the Floor brings together a distinguished and diverse cast of dance ethnographers, dancers, teachers, choreographers, and dance historians to discuss and reflect on a variety of topics in the world of Irish step dance and related percussive dance forms. This volume includes essays that originated at a symposium held at New York University in 2006 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of “Riverdance.” The contributor list is impressive and includes the most well-known names in both Irish dancing scholarship and performance. “Irish music and dance, and indeed the broader questions of Irish identity in a global world, have recently experienced enormous flux and change. Close to the Floor is an invaluable collection of responses from those intimately connected to that process, either as practitioners or knowledgeable commentators. Their views will provide stimulation to the current reader and potent illumination for future inquiry.”—Bill Whelan, composer of “Riverdance” Mick Moloney is Global Distinguished Professor of Music and Irish Studies at New York University. J’aime Morrison is associate professor of performance at California State University, Northridge. Colin Quigley is senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at the University of Limerick. Distributed for Macater Press For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

October 2009 176 pp.   6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-9814924-4-5 Paper $24.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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