Gertrude Prokosch Kurath

Biographic Data

ID3637754
NAMEGertrude Prokosch Kurath
GIVEN NAMESGertrude Prokosch
FAMILY NAMEKurath
SIGNATUREKURATH G P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS31
WORKS AS AUTHOR32
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1943
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6

    Richard N Adams, Ralph L Beals et al.BOOKHandbook of Middle American…2015

  • Native American music

    Bruno Nettl, Victoria Lindsay Levine et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2013

  • Half a Century of Dance Research

    Cynthia J Novack, Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEEthnomusicology1989

  • George Gershwin's Concerto in F at the Yale School of Drama

    Open AccessGertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEDance Research Journal1988References: 1

    Gertrude Kurath's article “George Gershwin's Concerto in F at the Yale School of Drama” gives us entry into the dances of two worlds. One is the Euro-American world of creative dance composition exemplified by the 1930 slice of time at the then newly established Yale School of Drama. The other is the Native American and Black American dance world that allows a glimpse into the expansive transformation of Kurath's “kinetic empathy” (Kurath 1986:3)…

  • Dances of the Tewa Indians

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Jill D SweetARTICLEEthnomusicology1987

  • The American Indian

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEDance Chronicle1978

    Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance. By Jamake Highwater. Illustrated, 192 pp. New York: Viking Press, 1977. $18.95

  • Michigan Indian Festivals

    Joann W Kealiinohomoku, Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1969

  • Dance and Song Rituals of Six Nations Reserve, Ontario

    David P Mcallester, Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEEthnomusicology1969

  • Michigan Indian Festivals

    Judith Becker, Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEEthnomusicology1967

  • Dances of Anahuac

    Frances Gillmor, Samuel Marti et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1966

  • Culture and Conquest

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, George M FosterARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1961Cited by: 4

  • Panorama of Dance Ethnology

    James H Howard, Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEEthnomusicology1961

  • Dance, Music and the Daily Bread

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEEthnomusicology1960

    ance and music can be more than specialized arts; the job can be more than a grim task. The meeting of these two disparate aspects of modern life could give dance and music fuller significance and invest the struggle for subsistence with an aura. In many parts of the world that is so. The arts have grown out of the economy. In such cultures they show myriad variations, yet pervading tendencies as to functions, aspect, cultural connections, and dy…

  • Panorama of Dance Ethnology

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLECurrent Anthropology1960Cited by: 17References: 3

  • Game Animal Dances of the Rio Grande Pueblos

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLESouthwestern Journal of…1958

  • Text Books in Labanotation

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Nadia ChilkovskyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1957

  • Labanotation

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Ann HutchinsonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1957

  • The Contra Dance Book

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Rickey Holden et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1957

  • Pan-Indianism in Great Lakes Tribal Festivals

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1957Cited by: 4

  • Catholic Hymns of Michigan Indians

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1957

    In the rush to preserve the native cultural fragments of the American Indian, ethnologists and musicologists have tended to neglect or scorn semi-Christian aspects. Lately the students of ethnology have awakened to the importance of culture mixtures termed acculturation, but musicians lag behind. To my knowledge only Willard Rhodes is aware of the rich fund of Indian hymnody. During my four years of work among the Algonquian Indians of Michigan' …

  • Festival in Haiti

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Jean Leon Destine et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1956

  • Dance Relatives of Mid-Europe and Middle America

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1956Cited by: 1

  • Nova Scotia Folk Music from Cape Breton

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Diane HamiltonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1956

  • Spanish Dancing

    Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, La Meri et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1950

  • Mexican Moriscas

    Gertrude Prokosch KurathARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1949Cited by: 3