Shoo-Fly Swing and La Boulangère
File: Shoo-Fly Swing and La Boulangère.pdf
Title
Shoo-Fly Swing and La Boulangère
Alternative title
from Jane Austen to the Deep South
Subject
Southern / Appalachian / Big sets; Cotillon / cotillion
Description
Compilation of sources that reveal the similarity between La Boulangère, a European dance around 1800 and the only dance mentioned by name by Jane Austen, and the Shoo-Fly Swing, its American descendant found as the closing figure of a big set dance.
Creator
John Ramsay and Phil Jamison
Date Created
2012
Spatial Coverage
France, England, southern Appalachia
Temporal Coverage
18th century - late; 19th century - early