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- Subject is exactly "Traditional Western (pre-1940)"
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Square Dance collection at University of Denver
The archives at the University of Denver (DU) hold a vast collection of square dance material. DU is the repository for two vast archives, those of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation and the personal… View itemMoving Image
Square Dance - panel discussion
The consultants for the Square Dance History Project look at different aspects of square dance history. Participants include David Millstone, Tony Parkes, Phil Jamison, Bob Dalsemer, Jim Mayo, Larry… View itemDocument
Square and Couple Dances with Directions and Calls - Lloyd Shaw
This is a supplement to Cowboy Dances and Good Morning that was used in a 1947 summer session at the University of Colorado. "Most of these dances have been taken from the mimeographed material… View itemDocument
Southern California Square Dance "Gold Rush"
This essay, from the program booklet of the 1976 National Square Dance Convention, provides an overview of early square dancing in southern California. That year's NSDC was held in Anaheim, CA,… View itemMoving Image
Sally Goodin walkthrough - Bill Litchman - Traditional Western Square Dances 5a
Dance: "Sally Goodin with a Docey-do," devised by Marvin Shilling, Walsenburg, Colorado (based on the traditional dance "Sally Goodin") This is the walkthrough; a separate video… View itemMoving Image
Sally Goodin and a Docey Doe - Bill Litchman - Traditional Western Square Dances 5b
Caller: Bill Litchman. This clip shows the actual dance; a separate video shows the walkthrough. Once the dance gets going, Bill throws in patter using lyrics to the song Mountain Dew. Bill Litchman… View itemSound
Sally Goodin - Eddie Carol & his Corn Cobbers
Eddie Carol, called by some "the greatest authority on the American square dance In Australia," was a leading Australia caller who specialized in a singing patter style of calling after… View itemDocument
Rural Leaders' Guide for Square and Group Dances, 1951
From the forward: "This circular is designed to assist rural leaders in teaching square and group dancing and in conducting organized recreational dancing activities." After several pages of… View itemDocument
Round Dances
Olcutt Sanders was a Texas dance historian. He writes, "The round dances that are included quite generally on square dance programs these days originated in Europe in the late Eighteenth and… View itemDocument
Review of Cowboy Dances
This review of Lloyd Shaw's book comes from Douglas Kennedy, director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society from 1924 (after Cecil Sharp's death) until 1961. Kennedy had teveled to the… View itemMoving Image
Push Ol' Pa and Push Ol' Ma - Bill Litchman
Bill Litchman calls at the Dare To Be Square weekend held November 18-20, 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. The usual pattern for the figure is for the active gent to lead… View itemStill Image
Pioneer Promenaders - Denver University
These newspaper clippings and photographs document the Denver University Pioneer Promenaders Square Dance Club as they travel to Washington, DC, for the 1940 National Folk Festival and a separate trip… View item
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