Polish Wedding Traditions

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        Polish Folk Dances and Songs:

        A Step-by-Step Guide by Ada Dziewanowska, Basia Dziewanowska, Jas Dziewanowski, Stas Kmiec, and Jacek Marek.

        This hardcover book has 800 pages of folklore song and dance and more and was published by Hippocrene Books, May 1996.

        The most comprehensive and definitive book on Polish Dance in the English language, this work contains in-depth descriptions of over 80 of Poland's most characteristic and interesting dances, including such national dances as the Polonez, the Mazur, the Kujawiak, the Oberek, the Krakowiak, and over 70 selected dances from Mazowsze, Malopolska, Silesia, Wielkopolska, and Pomorze.

        For each dance, the author provides step-by-step instructions on the dancers' positions, basic steps, and patterns. There are over 400 illustrations depicting steps and movements, and over 90 appropriate musical selections providing the musical score, lyrics in Polish, and the English translations and pronunciation.

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