History of Dance

Second Edition

Gayle Kassing, PhD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kassing, Gayle.

Title: History of dance / Gayle Kassing, PhD.

Description: Second edition. | Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2018] |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017002407 (print) | LCCN 2017002883 (ebook) | ISBN

9781492536697 (print) | ISBN 9781492536710 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Dance–History. | Dance–United States–History.

Classification: LCC GV1601 .K37 2018 (print) | LCC GV1601 (ebook) | DDC

792.8–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002407

ISBN: 978-1-4925-3669-7 (print)

Copyright © 2017, 2007 by Gayle Kassing

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