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When Charlie Brown signs up for dance lessons, he meets the girl of his dreams who asks him to the Sweetheart Ball.With his head in the clouds and his feet on the floor, Charlie Brown's greatest date goes awry when Snoopy wants to waltz, too. ... Read more

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Poor Charlie Brown
This is a great book for Peanuts lovers - young and old.Once again Charlie Brown is feeling down and out.Who else would he ask for advice but Lucy at her psychiatric help stand?Charlie Brown is advised to sign up for dance lessons.He loves it!A cute blond headed girl picks him forher dance partner. Just when he can't belive it's real, she asks him to goto the Sweetheart Dance.To find out whathappens, you need to read thebook.This book is also great for beginning readers.It will hold theirinterest while they enjoy the thrill of reading to themselves. ... Read more

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When John Charles Chasteen learned that Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, danced on a banquet table to celebrate Latin American independence in 1824, he tried to visualize the scene. How, he wondered, did the Liberator dance? Did he bounce stiffly in his dress uniform? Or did he move his hips? In other words, how high had African dance influences reached in Latin American societies? A vast social gap separated Bolívar from people of African descent; however, Chasteen’s research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap.

Fast-paced and often funny, this book explores the history of Latin American popular dance before the twentieth century. Chasteen first focuses on Havana, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro, where dances featuring a “transgressive close embrace” (forerunners of today’s salsa, tango, and samba) emerged by 1900. Then, digging deeper in time, Chasteen uncovers the historical experiences that molded Latin American popular dance, including carnival celebrations, the social lives of slaves, European fashions, and, oddly enough, religious processions. The relationship between Latin American dance and nationalism, it turns out, is very deep, indeed.

John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 3875 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Association for the Advancement of Physical Education was created in 1885. It is now called the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. After World War II, the emphasis on physical fitness increased at the college level but was limited to the support for men's athletic activities. In the 1960s, the physical education profession began to emerge as a serious discipline. In the 1970s and 1980s, the emphasis on health and nutrition gave physical fitness a new meaning. The future of the physical education profession depends upon improved training for its practitioners and an increase in the profession's areas of specialization.

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Title: The field of physical education - common goals, not common roles. (the history and development of physical education)
Author: Charles B. Corbin
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: v64Issue: n1Page: p79(5)

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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First produced for the stage in 1839 in London, this is the only known English language play ever performed with an angling theme. This is not simply a dramatized version of The Complete Angler, but rather, it is the engaging and unfolding story of a particular day in the life of Izaak Walton - presented here amusingly, a bit out of character. It is funny, clever, crisp and biting, utilizing all the elements of farce and melodrama: mistaken identity, the imperiled heroine, the bad guys (Gypsies) and the savior, Father Izaak (of course). Along the way we have Izaak providing instruction on the art of angling to a young Templar (lawyer) and we find that dear old Izaak has some rather tart ideas concerning lawyers: "... the besetting sin of all young lawyers is too great a proness to make long speeches upon slight occasions." This is a very pleasurable tour through Walton's rural, idyllic, seventeenth-century England.The book is illustrated with magnificent steel engravings of the period, and Hoagy Carmichael provides excellent commentary on the theatre, Victorian drama, and the enduring legend of Izaak Walton. Hoagy B. Carmichael is well-known to most. He is a fine angler, author, bamboo fly rod designer and builder, and a Broadway producer. He is currently developing and original stage piece, "Hoagland," featuring his late father's iconic music. It is bound for the Great White Way. ... Read more

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Mr. Izaak Walton relived
A high quality slipcased edition of Izaak Walton history.Anyone interested in Mr. Izaak Walton or the history of fishing should have this wonderful book.Worth twice the price!Buy it and enjoy every word. ... Read more

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Pulls No Punches
One of Bukowski's bucket full of virtues is that he tells the truth, and he pulls no punches here in talking about the phenomenon known as "Hollywood".I did find some of the person to person interaction to be thin, but that could be that human to human interaction in Hollywood tends to be thin.Bukowski lets it be known that he questioned his motives in going Hollywood and becoming something that he used to look down on only a short time before - for this alone I respect him immensely as not a lot of them who do this care to make a public introspection afterwards.Bukowski was a real man.Read this book

Obscure Gem
If you never heard of the crude, hard drinking American author, this is where to start and/or end.This is Bukowski at his finest. Good reading around "Oscar" time.................

bukowski's most enjoyable novel
publishers weekly sure has it in for bukowski. personally, i think of that publication as a sort of cemetery where a lifeless staff of dullards pronounce useless verdicts from there dreary coffins. ignore publishers weekly on this and all books. please do. anyway, this is a very enjoyable book which gives an insiders/outsiders look from within hollywood that almost all of us will never see. bukowski is light and comedic here, but still as biting as ever. "ham and rye," might be his best novel; this one is just so much more fun. highly recommended.

Dissapointing
"I drove north up the Harbor freeway toward Hollywood Park. I'd been playing the horses over 30 years. It started after my near fatal hemorrhage at the L.A. County Hospital. They told me that if I took another drink that I was dead.
`What'll I do?' I asked Jane.
`About What?'
`What'll I use as a substitute for drink?'
`Well, there are the horses.'
`Horses? What do you do?'
`Bet on them? Sounds stupid.'
We went and I won handsomely. I began to go on a daily basis. Then, slowly, I began to drink a little again. Then I drank more. And I didn't die. So then I had drinking and the horses. I was hooked all around" (176).

Bukowksi's prose, much like his persona is strong, dead-pan, and often touching and funny. This novel however, is weaker than much of his other works of fiction because the narrator, Henry Chianski, is constantly surrounded by his colleagues. Bukowski doesn't allow for any breathing room in this often redundant portraiture of the world of making film, a field Bukowski has nothing but contempt for. After 100 pages of endless negotiations and back-stabbings one wonders why Bukowski wasn't able to conjure any better scenarios than he was in `The Post-Office,' a far less interesting subject and setting. This novel is not without its moments and the prose is never embarrassing, but it removes the grit and loneliness of his earlier work, necessarily at that, as he composes it onto the screen. A minor effort from an otherwise effective and provocative author.

More drunken humor from Bukowski!
This is Bukowskis humorous account of the making of the movie Barfly. Its funny to see the subtle name changes of people like Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Tom Jones, Madonna (he referred to her as Ramona) and Bukowskis humorous and not always very complimentry recollections and opinions of them.

Hollywood isn't as good as Ham on Rye, Post Office or Women but its still very good and worth reading.
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An economic history the band business of Chicago
The latest volume in the "Music in American Life" series, That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950 is an economic history the band business of Chicago prior to World War II. Written by an experienced jazz and dance band researcher, That Toddlin' Town covers big names such as Edgar Benson, Jules Stein and James Petrillo, and more, as well as the endeavors of dance bands, the role of early dance halls, ice rinks, and beer gardens, how dance bands earned popular respect, the impact of the Great Depression, and much more. A thoroughly researched account, featuring an extensive bibliography and index, That Toddlin' Town is a "must-have" for jazz and dance band historians.
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