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| June 01, 2008 | Druesedow, John E. | COPYRIGHT 2008 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789. By Kate Van Winkle Keller. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. [xviii, 697 p. ISBN-10 1576471276; ISBN-13 9781576471212. $84.] Illustrations, maps, bibliographic references, index.

This is an encyclopedic "narrative" (the author's term, see pp. 1 and 652) about dance and dance music during the American colonial period, covering the 261 years from the landing of a Spanish expedition in the area of the present Tampa Bay, Florida, to the "birth of the United States of America" (p. 652), symbolized by the very first session of the newly formed United States Congress in New York followed by the inauguration of George ...

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