Calling for Modern Square Dancing - Jim Mayo
Author Jim Mayo writes:
"This book is, I believe, the first "Caller Text" that was written for modern (as different from traditional) square dance callers. The draft was written in 1961 & 62 which was, I believe, the second or third year that I taught callers. As I review this new digital version formatted by Gardner Patton I am struck by how “current” the information in it is today (2019).
"I had attended Ed Gilmore's school for callers in Glenwood springs, Colorado in 1959 to learn what I could from his teaching. I came away feeling that there was a real need of a text book that would provide detailed information about the basic skills. This set of notes for my 1961/62 classes was my first attempt to provide such a document."
The book is divided into seven chapters:
1 The Music and the Call
2 Choreography
3 Timing
4 Programming
5 Teaching
6 Equipment
7 Square Dance Club Administration
Leadership & Club Administration
Smoothness in Square Dancing
Timing
Your Voice
as well as useful pieces by Al Brundage, Bill Peters, Bob Brundage, Dick Severance, and Bob Van Antwerp.
In an e-mail (May 21, 2019), Mayo explained more of the history of this publication: ""In 1966 I wrote a text book for my caller classes. I printed it in 50 copies in mimeograph and distributed most of them. A copy I retained has been available on the SDFNE site for a while but last fall Gardner Patton noticed it and converted it to a nice clean pdf format. John Wedge made it available in the new form on the SDFNE site. A couple of years ago a committee of CALLERLAB Caller Coaches looked for a document that would better serve beginning caller students than the very complicated documents that were generally available. That committee settled for a mentoring guideline that had been prepared by the CALLERLAB Caller Training Committee. I have recently persuaded the caller coach committee to also recommend my book for beginning caller students."
Subjects: Modern square dance - general, Modern Western 1960 - 1974
Tags: Calling for Modern Square Dancing, instruction, Jim Mayo
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Ed Gilmore - Square Dance Callers Instruction Course - 1949 |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Beginners Square Dance - plan for ten lessons (Don Armstrong) |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Sight Calling - Les Gotcher |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Joe Lewis - Callers Class |
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"This book is, I believe, the first "Caller Text" that was written for modern (as different from traditional) square dance callers. The draft was written in 1961 & 62 which was, I believe, the second or third year that I taught callers. As I review this new digital version formatted by Gardner Patton I am struck by how “current” the information in it is today (2019).
"I had attended Ed Gilmore's school for callers in Glenwood springs, Colorado in 1959 to learn what I could from his teaching. I came away feeling that there was a real need of a text book that would provide detailed information about the basic skills. This set of notes for my 1961/62 classes was my first attempt to provide such a document."
The book is divided into seven chapters:
1 The Music and the Call
2 Choreography
3 Timing
4 Programming
5 Teaching
6 Equipment
7 Square Dance Club Administration
Leadership & Club Administration
Smoothness in Square Dancing
Timing
Your Voice
as well as useful pieces by Al Brundage, Bill Peters, Bob Brundage, Dick Severance, and Bob Van Antwerp.
In an e-mail (May 21, 2019), Mayo explained more of the history of this publication: ""In 1966 I wrote a text book for my caller classes. I printed it in 50 copies in mimeograph and distributed most of them. A copy I retained has been available on the SDFNE site for a while but last fall Gardner Patton noticed it and converted it to a nice clean pdf format. John Wedge made it available in the new form on the SDFNE site. A couple of years ago a committee of CALLERLAB Caller Coaches looked for a document that would better serve beginning caller students than the very complicated documents that were generally available. That committee settled for a mentoring guideline that had been prepared by the CALLERLAB Caller Training Committee. I have recently persuaded the caller coach committee to also recommend my book for beginning caller students."