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Shaping Europe's first dance craze: Napoleon's 'Grande armée': a driving force behind the dissemination of dance repertoires in continental Europe - 1803 & 1815 Universiteit Gent
During the first decade of the 19th century a remarkable pair of dances came into fashion in continental Europe: the walz and the quadrille. The pace at which this renouveau of dance fashion took shape, was unseen before. For several reasons the speed and geographical scope at which the introduction of the new dances materialized, leaves us struggling with many questions. The comparison with that other 19th century 'dancecraze' the polkamania, ...