Cecil Sharp at Pine Mountain Settlement School
Creator: Pine Mountain Settlement School (May, 1919)
Cecil Sharp first encountered southern Appalachian dancing at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky on August 31, 1917. (See here for Sharp's notes that day in his diary.) The event became the focal point of Part 5 of Sharp's Country Dance Book series.
That visit is recalled here, in the 1919 Notes from the school.
A detailed account of the visit by Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles can be found on the PMSS website here; that account was written by Helen Wykle, an archivist for Pine Mountain who has worked for ten years to process the collection of materials from that school's history.
For more information on Cecil Sharp and the dances he encountered in Appalachia, see the Related Items on this site.
Collection: Southern Appalachian
Subjects: Southern Appalachian - general
Tags: Cecil Sharp, Kentucky, Kentucky running set, Maud Karpeles, Pine Mountain, running set
Subjects: Southern Appalachian - general
Tags: Cecil Sharp, Kentucky, Kentucky running set, Maud Karpeles, Pine Mountain, running set
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Phil Jamison 4 - Cecil Sharp and the "running set" |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Set Running - Cecil Sharp in America |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Kentucky Set Running - 1917 firsthand account |
Citation
Pine Mountain Settlement School, “Cecil Sharp at Pine Mountain Settlement School,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, http://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1598.
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Cecil Sharp at Pine Mountain Settlement School
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Cecil Sharp first encountered southern Appalachian dancing at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky on August 31, 1917. (See here for Sharp's notes that day in his diary.) The event became the focal point of Part 5 of Sharp's Country Dance Book series.
That visit is recalled here, in the 1919 Notes from the school.
A detailed account of the visit by Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles can be found on the PMSS website here; that account was written by Helen Wykle, an archivist for Pine Mountain who has worked for ten years to process the collection of materials from that school's history.
For more information on Cecil Sharp and the dances he encountered in Appalachia, see the Related Items on this site.
That visit is recalled here, in the 1919 Notes from the school.
A detailed account of the visit by Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles can be found on the PMSS website here; that account was written by Helen Wykle, an archivist for Pine Mountain who has worked for ten years to process the collection of materials from that school's history.
For more information on Cecil Sharp and the dances he encountered in Appalachia, see the Related Items on this site.
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Source
"Pine Mountain Settlement School Notes,” (PMSS_notes_1919_may_001), Vol 1 #2, May 1919, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Accessed here September 9, 2016
Date Created
May, 1919