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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Call Number: GV 1787 .H58 2010ISBN: 9781400060603Publication Date: 2010Located at the Undergraduate Library.
Named one of the best books of the year by numerous book reviewers.
"...From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg." --From publisher description.
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Wayne State University Libraries have many books relevant to the study of Dance. Much of the Dance book collection is located in Purdy Kresge Library. In general, Dance books have Library of Congress call numbers ranging from
LIBRARY CALL NUMBER RANGE FOR DANCE BOOKS:
GV1580-1799.4
You can find books by searching the University Libraries online catalog, right from the Libraries' home page
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You can read online electronic books right from your desktop.
The library owns approximately 200 electronic books covering a variety of dance topics.
A simple way to find out which books are available online...
Do a regular library catalog search from the library's home page
at www.lib.wayne.edu and your list of results.
To the left of your results find the box titled FORMAT.
Then look at the list below it. The number of EBOOKS
will appear toward the bottom of the list, with the
exact number in parentheses.
Click on EBOOK to see the list of titles.
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Featured Online Book
Dancing From Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities by ISBN: 9780299218508Includes a variety of chapters on dance from an anthropological and ethnographical perspectives. Highlighted are dances of India, Korea, Indonesia, Tonga, Macedonia and the former Yugoslavia, New Mexico and England.
Historic EBook Collections
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