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- Subject is exactly "Southern Appalachian - general"
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Bill Martin - Oregon Public Broadcast TV
Note: Oregon Art Beat no longer streams this recording, but the video will play on our site.Broadcast in 2003, this public television documentary profiles caller Bill Martin and the old-time southern… View itemSound
Bob Dalsemer - West Virginia dances
This is audio only; it's part of Bob Dalsemer's introduction to his workshop introducing different dance styles from West Virginia. Despite its small size, there are different square dance styles in… View itemMoving Image
Bob Dalsemer – Contra and square dance writer and caller
Bob Dalsemer is an internationally-known square dance and contra dance caller and writer. Bob called dances for more than five decades in 33 states, Canada, the Czech Republic, Britain, Belgium,… View itemSound
Bob Dean - dances from Pocahontas County, WV
Bob Dean was invited to be on staff for the 1980 program at American Dance & Music Week at Pinewoods Camp, a week sponsored by Country Dance and Song Society. This half hour recording by Ed Durham… View itemWebsite
Calendar - Traditional and Old-Time Square Dances
This calendar is a subsection of a detailed and well-maintained website that lists dances around the country. View itemDocument
Cecil Sharp at Pine Mountain Settlement School
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… View itemDocument
Cherokee Indian Circle Dance - Indian style?
Where does the square dance call "Indian style" originate? This description of a Cherokee dance, published in 1947, offers interesting possibilities. It comes from a booklet authored by two… View itemWebsite
Eastern Kentucky Folk Dancing Oral History Project
This is a collection of recorded interviews that document the development of traditional square and related dance activity in southeastern Kentucky. The interviews were with mostly elderly residents… View itemMoving Image
Eleanor Roosevelt square dancing
Newsreel footage of Eleanor Roosevelt dancing in Arthurdale, West Virginia, 1940 View itemDocument
Fiddlin' and Square Dancing Are Back
Newspaper article (1971) written by caller Betty Casey, describing the start of the Green Grass Cloggers.Percussive clogging in choreographed routines had been made popular at the Mountain Dance and… View itemDocument
Finding List of Southeastern Square Dance Figures
Author J. Olcutt Sanders embarked on a serious effort to track down examples in other regions of square dance figures found in the Southeastern United States. He devised a shorthand method of… View itemDocument
Gym Classes in Square Dancing
This article describes the author's experiences teaching square dancing at Vanderbilt University. In addition to describing how the program developed, Prof. Chadwick concludes on an uplifting… View item
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