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The Newberry Library: Some Rare Primary Sources on Dancing, 1581–1868

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Edward Pease
Edward Pease
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Western Kentucky University
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 1-2 , 1981 , pp. 76 - 77
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1981

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1. Towner, Lawrence W. The Newberry Library … a Brief History. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1977 Google Scholar; also Towner, 's An Uncommon Collection of Uncommon Collections: The Newberry Library. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2nd ed. 1976 Google Scholar. The anonymous pamphlet, Treasures of the Newberry Library (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1981)Google Scholar is a useful checklist of the more spectacular holdings, though not a single dance history item is included.

2. English title: Performing Arts Libraries and Museums of the World. Jointly sponsored by Centre Internationale de la Recherche Scientifique (International Federation of Library Associations) and UNESCO, under the general editorship of Andre Veinstein. Paris: Editions du Centre Internationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 2nd ed. 1967.

3. New York: Hall, G.K., 1974. 10 vols., but with essential annual supplements entitled Bibliographic Guide to Dance Google Scholar.

4. Rome and Florence: Casa Editrice le Maschere, 9 vols., 1954–1962, plus single-volume supplements Google Scholar, 1963, 1966, 1968.

5. Boston: Hall, G.K., 1978. This is mainly a facsimile, by historical periods, of appropriate author (or composer or editor) entries from the Newberry card catalogue, followed by an alphabetical index of authors, composers, and editors. A substantial number of dance items are included, inasmuch as they contain music or are other-wise of musicological interest Google Scholar.

6. London: The Dancing Times, 1954. Reprint London: Dance Books Ltd., 1977.

7. The sections on “Social Dancing” and “History and Criticism” are especially rewarding. However, at the time of this writing the Newberry Library does not own the NYPL Dictionary Catalog. Thus one must prepare search lists or photo-copies in advance.

8. A Bibliography of Dancing. New York: Wilson, H.W., 1936 Google Scholar. Supplements (also Wilson) 1938, 1940, 1941. Completely reprinted, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1974, and London: Dance Books Ltd., 1974.

9. A Bibliography of Dancing. London: The Dancing Times, 1929 Google Scholar. Reprint New York: Benjamin Blom, 1963.

10. Compact edition London. Trustees of the British Museum, 1966, 27 vols.

11. Pre-1956 Imprints. London and Chicago: Mansell, 1968 Google Scholar. Some 725 vols. to date.

12. Among pertinent holdings from earlier times is an entire special collection of “courtesy” books (accessible through subject heading in the Newberry card catalogue; see also Virgil Heltzel's, B. Checklist of Courtesy Books in The Newberry Library. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1942)Google Scholar. In these, dancing is usually considered as an important aspect of “deportment,” and inevitably there is much about the social milieu of ballroom dancing. The Library also has a few interesting dance titles from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The holdings in muicology include considerable dance music and writings about it.