Texas Dance Memories
This booklet was compiled by Betty Casey; it presents an overview of Texas square dance history. The booklet features short profiles of 14 "first pacesetters," figures who are important in the history of Texas square dance. Most individuals are also represented by the calls for a dance associated with that person.
Texas features prominently in this website, no surprise given the number of influential figures in square dance history who were active in Texas.
Casey herself was active in Texas square dance; see this helpful biography prepared by Ron Houston of the Society of Folk Dance Historians. He mentiones that she attended classes with Bob Sumrall in the late 1940s, and decades later she was an important influence on the Green Grass Cloggers, helping them incorporate square dance figures into their clogging routines.
Subjects: Traditional Western (pre-1940), Transitional/Western 1940s, Transitional/Western 1950s
Tags: Betty Casey, Bob Sumrall, Carl Journell, E. O. Rogers, Fran and Steve Stephens, Herb Greggerson, Jimmy Clossin, Joe Lewis, Les Gotcher, Manning Smith, Marshall Flippo, Melton Luttrell, Raymond Smith, Rickey Holden, Texas
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Texas features prominently in this website, no surprise given the number of influential figures in square dance history who were active in Texas.
Casey herself was active in Texas square dance; see this helpful biography prepared by Ron Houston of the Society of Folk Dance Historians. He mentiones that she attended classes with Bob Sumrall in the late 1940s, and decades later she was an important influence on the Green Grass Cloggers, helping them incorporate square dance figures into their clogging routines.