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 categorizing figures, and his work is a useful reference from 1942. Sanders summarizes his work thus:
"Despite search in many of the major libraries of the nation, I have discovered only five printed books (most of them hardly more than pamphlets), one album of records, one mimeographed book, three articles in periodicals (one in a small town newspaper), and one mimeographed magazine which deal wholly or in part with the square dances of this area. Altogether, more than 150 titles are given referring to more than 100 distinct figures.
"About 260 separate entries are represented. The plan of the list has been to give for each figure the following information: Title (the common title used in the Southeast) with cross references to every alternative title; references to similar figures; publications in which the figure appears, pages on which the figure appears and serial numbers of phonograph records containing the figures; alternative titles; brief descriptive note concerning the figure; the Southeastern state in which the figure is found."
Subjects: Southern Appalachian - general, Southern / Elsewhere
Tags: finding guide, J. Olcutt Sanders, Olcutt Sanders, Southeastern, Southern, southern Appalachian
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"Despite search in many of the major libraries of the nation, I have discovered only five printed books (most of them hardly more than pamphlets), one album of records, one mimeographed book, three articles in periodicals (one in a small town newspaper), and one mimeographed magazine which deal wholly or in part with the square dances of this area. Altogether, more than 150 titles are given referring to more than 100 distinct figures.
"About 260 separate entries are represented. The plan of the list has been to give for each figure the following information: Title (the common title used in the Southeast) with cross references to every alternative title; references to similar figures; publications in which the figure appears, pages on which the figure appears and serial numbers of phonograph records containing the figures; alternative titles; brief descriptive note concerning the figure; the Southeastern state in which the figure is found."