Communities in motion : dance, community, and tradition in America's Southeast and beyond

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Communities in motion : dance, community, and tradition in America's Southeast and beyond

edited by Susan Eike Spalding and Jane Harris Woodside, under the auspices of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

(Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 35)

Greenwood Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index

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内容説明

For the first time, a book on vernacular dance provides detailed case studies about a range of forms: old-time square dancing in Virginia, Indiana, and Newfoundland; African-American step shows; clogging; Cherokee traditional dance; historical reconstructions of 18th-century dance; and modern contra. This book fills a need from graduate studies to high schools, which are mandated under the Educate America Act to teach dance in historical and cultural perspective. Those interested in folklore, anthropology, dance history, ethnology, aesthetics, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, and more, will benefit from this work as they learn how vernacular dance reflects and shapes communities. The work is divided into four sections. Each section is prefaced with an introductory essay that sets the essays and interviews into a theoretical context. Continuity and Change deals primarily with dance forms that have developed organically within a community. Conserving Tradition considers the conscious efforts of people from a particular culture to maintain a vernacular dance tradition in the face of change. Inventing Tradition examines revival dance and historical dance reconstructions. Finally, Practical Suggestions for the Documentation of Traditional Dance will benefit readers who want to try their hands at research and documentation.

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Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Continuity and Change Frolics, Hoedowns, and Four-Handed Reels: Variations in Old-Time Dancing in Three Southwest Virginia Communities by Susan Eike Spalding "You Have to Watch Your People": Calling Old-Time Appalachian Square Dance: An Interview with Veronica Miller by Susan Eike Spalding and Jane Harris Woodside Square Dancing in the Rural Midwest: Dance Events and the Location of Community by Paul L. Tyler "There's a Lot of Pride Wrapped Up in What We Do": Reminiscences of a Fraternity Stepper: An Interview with Charles Collier by Jane Harris Woodside Stepping, Saluting, Cracking, and Freaking: The Cultural Politics of African American Step Shows by Elizabeth Fine Anglo-American Dance in Appalachia and Newfoundland: Toward a Comparative Framework by Colin Quigley Conserving Tradition Finding the Way Between the Old and the New: The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and Bascom Lamar Lunsford's Work as a Citizen by David E. Whisnant Wild and Yet Really Subdued: Cultural Change, Stylistic Diversification, and Personal Choice in Traditional Appalachian Dance by Gail Matthews-DeNatale Carrying on the Old Mountain Clog Dance: Thoughts about Freestyle Clogging: An Interview with Bob Phillips by Gail Matthews-DeNatale "Clogging is Country": A Precision Clogger's Perspective: An Interview with Barbara Bogart by Jane Harris Woodside "I Want To Show These Young People What We Used To Do": A Cherokee Revivalist Remembers: An Interview with Walker Calhoun by Jane Harris Woodside "Everybody Needs Identity": Reviving Cherokee Dance by Jane Harris Woodside Inventing Traditions The Green Grass Cloggers: The Appalachian Spirit Goes International by Phil Jamison "We Tended to Project a Lot of Energy": Reminiscences about the Early Days of the Green Grass Cloggers: An Interview with Dudley Culp by Susan Eike Spalding and Jane Harris Woodside Folk Dance in the Early Years of the John C. Campbell Folk School by Douglas Day Old-Time Fiddling and Country Dancing in North America: Some Reconsiderations by Richard Blaustein Dance, Our Dearest Diversion: Historical Dance Reconstruction in Colonial Williamsburg by Merry Feyock Yuppies Invaded My Tradition at Midnight: A Sociological Study of a Contemporary American Contra Dance by Richard Carlin Practical Suggestions for the Documentation of Dance Collecting Traditional Appalachian Square Dances by Robert G. Dalsemer How to Document Dance: From the Notes to Talking Feet by Mike Seeger Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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