Jean C. Milligan

This is a reference book to Scottish Dance and is 200+ pages of word descriptions of dances. The first thing that struck me about this book is that the authors have a different sense of paragraphing to mine. It isn't very important, but you are hereby warned that narrative directions in the introductory text might change in the middle of a paragraph.

After that it becomes a question of how without a DVD we are to use this book. Really it should come with a DVD, although there are over 2000 Amazon Scottish Dance resources to help to identify the dances and music. YouTube too.

If you are a practicing folk dancer and want to learn more dances, I would imagine that this book will might help you pair many of the dances you do with their proper names and correct music. For the rest of us, I don't think it will be of much practical use.

I received a review copy of "101 Scottish Dances: A celebration of Scottish dancing" by The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Collins Reference) through NetGalley.com.… (more)