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Within the second half of the twentieth century, music has moved from the realms of the special occasion to the everyday: from belonging to the ‘Sunday sphere’ of life, when work is over and all other duties are taken care of, music has become a major component of everyday life’s soundscape. At the same time, from being an activity for the few, those especially inclined, gifted or wealthy, music has become a pursuit in reach of almost everyone. To a lesser extent the same is true for dance: take Sweden as an example. Here, well into the twentieth century, dance was seen as an activity merely for the young. It was customary to stop dancing after marriage or at least after the arrival of the first child. Today, dance is a favourite activity not only among the young, but also among the middle-aged and the elderly. ‘Senior dance’, a genre of specially designed ‘folk dances’ for the elderly invented in Germany in the mid-1980s, has become a popular dance genre in Sweden since the early 1990s, and continues to spread fast (Ronström, 1994).
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Ronström, O. (1999). It Takes Two — or More — to Tango: Researching Traditional Music/Dance Interrelations. In: Buckland, T.J. (eds) Dance in the Field. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375291_11
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