The Squirrel Hill Press is a publisher and distributor
of books on English country dance and morris dance, sword dance, historical
social dance (such as waltz, tango and polka), social dance as represented
in literature and other related topics.
At present, we offer ....
NEW!
May
Day Festivals in America, 1830 to the Present
Starting in the early 1830s, American girls and
women began to hold Old English May Day festivals, complete with maypole
dances, the crowning of a May Queen, and romantic plays and pageants.
These festivals accelerated in popularity after 1900 at colleges and
universities across the country. An important part of the traditional
college experience for many women, the celebrations played a surprisingly
influential role in the Progressive reform movement.
This thorough history examines the creation and development
of the traditional American May Day festival. It also provides an overview
of May Day celebrations at 80 specific college and universities, eight
of which continue to celebrate the festival annually.
For
more information, and to order online, click here
Dances from Barnes Two
a collection of 24 English country dances—some
previously unpublished—by choreographers from the U.S. and Britain.
Music, with chords, included.
For more information,
click here.
The
Blind Harper Dances
(Book and CD)
Modern English Country Dances set to Airs by Turlough
O'Carolan
Edited by
Allison Thompson
Dancing
Through Time
Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400 - 1918
(Selections)
by
Allison Thompson
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88 selections from period poems,
plays, novels and dance manuals on the topic of social dance.
For more information, click
here
.
Lighting
The Fire
Elsie J. Oxenham, the Abbey Girls and the English
Folk Dance Revival
by
Allison Thompson
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A study of the early English folk
dance revival as presented by popular British author Elsie J.
Oxenham. For more information, click
here
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A survey of the history of European
styles of linked sword dancing. For more information, click
here
Step Change
New Views on Traditional Dance
Edited by Georgina Boyes
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Seven views covering newly emerging approaches to
the study of traditional dance. For more information, click
here
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Jane
Austen was an ardent dancer, and episodes set in the ballroom
are critical components of all of her novels.
To read
"
The Felicities
of Rapid Motion; Jane Austen in the Ballroom
" by
Allison Thompson
,
Persuasions
,
Winter 2000
(the on-line journal of the
Jane
Austen Society of North America
)
,
click
here
To read "
Trinkets and Treasures:
Consuming Jane Austen
,"
Persuasions
On-Line
, Global Edition, April 2008
Click
Here
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