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6 avril 2021
- handle: 10670/1.tyrbkw
- isbn: 9781783747320
- eisbn: 9791036565144
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historiography folklore dance dance studies cultural memory Waltz Polka History Dance HIS054000 HBTBCiter ce document
Daniela Stavělová, « 5. The Polka as a Czech National Symbol », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.tyrbkw
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Wikipedia defines the Polka as follows: ‘originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout all of Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic’. Many people outside the Czech Republic will probably believe that the Polka was born somewhere in the Czech lands; some might even have heard that a maidservant devised the Polka in her free time on a farmyard. But what if it comes from Poland after all? ‘Not a...