Dance Bibliography

Includes books, articles,academic studies, and links to notable researchers' websites where appropriate

English

• Social Dance; a short history, A.H. Franks, 1964, Routledge Keegan paul, London

• English Folk Dancing, Douglas.N.Kennedy, 1964, Bell, London

• English Folk Song and Dance, Frank Kidson and Mary Neal, 1915, Cambridge University Press (Reprint 1972 - EP Publishing)

• The Social Dances of the 19th Century Philip J.S.Richardson, 1960, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London

• The Country Dance Book Books I-VI, Cecil J Sharp, 1909 - 22, Novello, London

• Some notes on the English Country Dance before Playford Melusine Wood, in The Journal of the EFDSS, 3 (1936-39), 93-94

• Prof. Theresa Buckland, Professor of Dance History and Ethnography, http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Theresa-Buckland/

Other British

• Dance in Society - Middle Ages to the Present Day, Frances Rust, 1969, Routledge Keegan Paul

• Scotland's Dances, H.A. Thurston, 1954, Bell, London

• Mats Melin, researcher into Scottish Dance, University of Limerick, http://limerick.academia.edu/MatsMelin

World

• The Dance - An Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe, Cecil J Sharp and A P Oppe, 1924, Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd (London) Minton,Balch & Co.(New York)

• World history of the dance, Curt Sachs (Translated by B. Schönberg), 1963, Norton, New York

• Take Your Partner - Traditional Dancing in Australia, Shirley Andrews, 1979, Griffin Press, S.Australia