Dance nation may refer to:

• Dance Nation (dance group)
• Dance Nation (TV channel)
• Dance Nation (record)

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A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.^[1] In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.^[2][3] In international relations, nation can refer to a country or sovereign state.^[1] The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians, such as the Cherokee Nation that prefer this term over the contested term tribe.^[1]

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: "a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people;" "a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people;" "a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation;" "a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture." According to Stalin, this would exclude Jews as they have no common territory.^[4]

An alternative view, expressed by Otto Bauer, author of Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question (1907), that "A nation is an aggregate of people bound into a community of character by a common destiny." would include Jews. R. Springer, author of The National Problem (1909), also cited by Stalin in his discussion of this matter, held similar views.^[4]

Etymology[link]

The word nation came to English from the Old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio (nātĭō) literally meaning "that which has been born".^[5]

As an example of how the word natio was employed in classical Latin, the following quote from Cicero's Philippics Against Mark Antony in 44 BC contrasts the external, inferior nationes ("races of people") with the Roman civitas ("community"):

"Omnes nationes servitutem ferre possunt: nostra civitas non potest."
("All races are able to bear enslavement, but our community cannot.")

— Cicero, Orationes: Pro Milone, Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, Philippicae I-XIV^[6]

An early example of the use of the word "nation" (in conjunction with language and territory) was provided in 968 by Liutprand (the bishop of Cremona) who, while confronting the Byzantine emperor, Nicephorus II, on behalf of his patron Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, declared:

"The land...which you say belongs to your empire belongs, as the nationality and language of the people proves, to the kingdom of Italy.'"

— Liutprand, Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana ad Nicephorum Phocam ^[7]

[edit] Medieval nationes

A significant early use of the term nation, as natio, occurred at mediaeval universities^[8] to describe the colleagues in a college or students, above all at the University of Paris, who were all born within a pays, spoke the same language and expected to be ruled by their own familiar law. In 1383 and 1384, while studying theology at Paris, Jean Gerson was elected twice as a procurator for the French natio. The University of Prague adopted the division of students into nationes: from its opening in 1349 the studium generale which consisted of Bohemian, Bavarian, Saxon and Polish nations.

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name "where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.^[9]

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Shaun Baker

Shaun Baker is a DJ from the north of England but has for over 20 years been based in Paderborn, Germany. He has been playing the worldwide club scene over 20 years. Together with his friend and partner Sebastian Wolter he also produces music. This musical partnership has over the past few years given the dance scene some great tracks to dance to, for example "Xplode 2" which hit the number 1 position in every German dance chart at the same time.

Other singles are "Push" (also a dance chart & sales hit) and "Bakerman", a co-op with the cult stars Laid Back from Denmark. Laid Back were so impressed with the new version of Bakerman they hooked Shaun Baker & Sebastian Wolter up with Lars von Trier, the world-famous film director from Denmark who has produced the video clip for the original version of Bakerman. He gave permission to use the original video for their version. It was #1 in most German dance charts again and the peak position in the German sale charts was 39. The next single “V.I.P.” released February 2007 performed well in Germany but received fantastic results in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. ” V.I.P.” hit the #1 position in the dance, radio and sale charts in both countries. Late summer 2007 he and Sebastian Wolter found their own record label called Uptunes. The debut release from Uptunes was his next single “Power” which is based on the very popular “Xplode” sound, but this time featuring singing vocals made the peak positions in various dance charts in Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. “Power” also led the German dance download charts. According to Uptunes the album is being prepared and the expected release date is planned for summer 2008. The next single “Hey Hi Hello” features a remix from Alex Christensen and will be released first in Slovakia and the Czech Republic this spring and later in Germany and elsewhere.

In the 2008 he took main theme song from Czech/East German fairytale movie Three nuts for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku, songwriter Karel Svoboda) and remixed it as song Could You Would You Should You. There are mixed reactions to this, mainly due the great popularity of original song.

Releases[link]

• Shaun Baker The Madman - Saaax!!! (1997)
• DJs Delay - Engage
• Shaun Baker - Japan (0000)
• K.K.System - Fax u.
• Shaun Baker - Pizza!
• Shaun Baker - On a Helium Trip
• Santoshi - The Law
• Shaun Baker - Somebody
• 3 Years 3 Days - Temple of Dance
• Shaun Baker - Back in Town
• Jordan & Baker - Explode (2002)
• Santoshi vs Marco Wong - Excess
• Bubbleheadz - Young
• Boo Selekta - F*ck U Up(Nobody listens to Hip Hop) (2003)
• Shaun Baker & Marc van Linden - Sex on the Streets
• Jordan & Baker - Millions
• Shaun Baker presents A & B Brothers - Music Love & Money
• Shaun Baker - The Works PT 01.(2003)
• Shaun Baker - Be Free
• Black Dildo - Freestyle F*cker
• A&B Brothers feat. Searo - Domo
• Clubbasse & The Baker - Worldwide
• Avilyn - Bango
• Axel Bust vs Locana - Yo Mom
• Shaun Baker - Xplode 2 (2005)
• Shaun Baker - Push! / Deep (2006)
• Shaun Baker - Bakerman (feat. Laid Back) (2006) #22 PL, #23 CZ
• Shaun Baker - V.I.P (feat. Maloy) (2007) #3 PL, #2 CZ,
• Shaun Baker - Power (2007)
• Shaun Baker - Hey Hi Hello (feat. Maloy) (2008) #15 PL, #1 CZ
• Shaun Baker - Could You Would You Should You (2008) #10 CZ
• Shaun Baker VS Dance Nation-Sunshine (2009)
• Shaun Baker - Give (feat. Maloy) (2009) #22 CZ
• Shaun Baker - Frontline (2010)
• Shaun Baker - Addiction (feat. Jessia Jean & Discomakers) (2011)

External links[link]

• official Homepage
• official Booking Agency
• Uptunes
• Sebastian Wolter