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Polka

By: Maristella Johanna Feustle
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:dance; dancing; United States

Polka refers to a style of dancing, usually by couples, and the music that accompanies it. It originated in the first half of the 19th century in the present-day Czech Republic, which was then part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, a crown land within the Austrian Empire. As the empire possessed ...

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  Feustle, M. (2019). Polka. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 1713-1715). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n568
  
  Feustle, Maristella Johanna. "Polka." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 1713-15. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n568.
  
  Feustle, M. 2019. Polka. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1713-1715 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n568> [Accessed 19 May 2022].
  
  Feustle, Maristella Johanna. "Polka." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 1713-15. SAGE Knowledge. 19 May 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n568.
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