Photo from VFW in Cambridge, MA by Arnold Reinhold, who supplied it to Wikipedia.

Selected Bibliography

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Barrand, Anthony G. Six Fools and a Dancer. Plainfield, Vermont: Northern Harmony Publishing Co., 1991.

Bayard, Samuel P. "Decline and `Revival' of Anglo-American Folk Music." Midwest Folklore 5(1955):69-77.

Bealle, John. "American Folklore Revival: A Study of an Old-Time Music and Dance Community." Ph.D. Dissertation. Indiana University, 1988.

Ben-Amos, Dan. "The Seven Strands of Tradition: Varieties in Its Meaning in American Folklore Studies." Journal of Folklore Research 21(1984):97-131.

Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966.

Best, David. Philosophy and Human Movement. London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen and Unwin, 1978.

Bixby, Peter. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 24 January 1991. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4061.

Breunig, Fred. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 11 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4059.

Bronner, Simon. Chain Carvers: Old Men Crafting Meaning. University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Burns, Thomas and Doris Mack. "Social Symbolism in a Rural Square Dance Event." Southern Folklore Quarterly 42(1978):295-327.

Butenhof, Ed. "Square Dancing in Lines." Country Dance and Song Society News 83(1988):3-4.

Chalk, Bernard. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 14 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4048.

______. Letter to author. 25 February 1992.

Country Dance and Song Society News. Northampton, Massachusetts: Country Dance and Song Society.

Cowan, Jane K. Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Dalsemer, Robert G., West Virginia Square Dances. New York: Country Dance and Song Society of America, 1982.

______. "Community Feelings: Center Set Syndrome." Country Dance and Song Society News 82(1988):10.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 2 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4053.

______. Letter to author. 26 February 1992.

Damon, S. Foster. The History of Square Dancing. Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Gazette, 1957.

Denisoff, R. Serge and Jens Lund. "The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions." Journal of American Folklore 84(1971):394-405.

Diggle, Roger. "Contradance Callers' Workshop." Cincinnati, Ohio, 1989.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 25 August 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4051.

Du Fresne, Ann Sarah, collector and editor. Cleveland Dances! A Midwestern Expression of the New England Tradition. Self published, 1990.

Edelman, Larry. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 19 May 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4032.

Elberger, Susan. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 10 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4058.

Feintuch, Burt. "Dancing to the Music: Domestic Square Dances and Community in South-central Kentucky (1880-1940)." Journal of the Folklore Institute (1981):49-68.

Fix, Penn. Contradancing in the Northwest. Produced with the assistance of the May Gadd Endowment Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society, 1991.

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Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Good Morning. Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Company, 1926.

Goldstein, Kenneth S. "Study of Repertory," in Americo Paredes and Richard Bauman, Toward New Perspectives in Folklore. Austin, London: University of Texas Press, 1972, pp. 62-67.

Green, Hank. Square and Folk Dancing. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

Hall, Frank. "Improvisation and Fixed Composition in Clogging." Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 3(4) (1985):200-217.

Hamilton, Jack, ed. The Ralph Page Book of Contras. London: The English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1969.

Handler, Richard and Jocelyn Linnekin. "Tradition, Genuine or Spurious." Journal of American Folklore 97(1984): 273-290.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. To Dance is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication. London, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.

______. Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Hendrickson, Chip. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 5 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4055.

Herring, J.L. Saturday Night Sketches: Stories of Old Wiregrass, Georgia. Tifton, Georgia: The Sunny South Press, 1978.

Hickman, Steve. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 1 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4052.

Hill, Becky. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 14 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4060.

Hinds, Tom. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 20 May 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4033.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Holden, Rickey. The Contra Dance Book. Newark, New Jersey: American Squares, 1956.

Hubert, Gene. Dizzy Dances, Volume I. Published by the author, n.d.

______. Dizzy Dances, Volume II. Published by the author, 1986.

______. Dizzy Dances, Volume III. Published by the author, 1990a.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 4 July 1990b. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4049-4050.

______. Letter to author. 14 March 1992.

Ingarden, Roman. "Phenomenological Aesthetics: An Attempt at Defining its Range," in Critical Theory Since 1965, ed. by Hazard Adams and Leroy Seark. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1986, pp. 185-197.

Ives, Edward D., Henry Glassie and John F. Szwed, Folksongs and Their Makers. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971.

Jamison, Phil. "Community Dances in the Eighties: Dare to Be Square!" The Old-Time Herald 6(1988-1989):21-24, 35.

Jennings, Larry, Ted Sannella, and Dan Pearl. "The Contra Connection: Confusion on the Floor." Country Dance and Song Society News 84(1988):5, 9-10.

Jennings, Larry. Zesty Contras: A Selection of 500 New England Style Dances with a Provocative Explanatory Text. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The New England Folk Festival Association, 1983.

______. "How Duple Minor Contras Work, with Applications to End Effects." Unpublished paper, June, 1990a.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 5 June 1990b. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4037-4038.

______. Letter to author. 28 March 1992.

Kaeppler, Adrienne L. "Folklore as Expressed in the Dance in Tonga." Journal of American Folklore 80(1967):160-168.

______. "Preservation and Evolution of Form and Function in Two Types of Tongan Dance," in Genevieve A. Highland et al., ed., Polynesian Culture History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth P. Emory. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press, 1967, pp. 503-536.

______. "Tongan Dance: A Study in Cultural Change." Ethnomusicology 14(1970):266-277.

______. "Aesthetics of Tongan Dance." Ethnomusicology 15(1971):175-185.

______. "Method and Theory in Analyzing Dance Structure with an Analysis of Tongan Dance." Ethnomusicology 16(1972):173-217.

______. "American Approaches to the Study of Dance." International Council for Traditional Music, Yearbook, vol. 23 (1991), pp. 11-21.

Kaynor, David. "Calling Dances for Beginners by Beginners." Printed and distributed by the author, 1990a.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 7 June 1990b. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4042-4043.

Kealiinohomoku, Joann M.W. "Theory and Methods for an Anthropological Theory of Dance." Ph.D. Thesis. Indiana University, 1976.

Knox, Roger, ed. Contras: As Ralph Page Called Them. Ithaca, New York: Roger C. Knox, 702 North Tioga Street, 1990.

Kopp, Carol. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 14 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4060.

Krumm, John. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 3 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4054.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Laufman, Dudley. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 8 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4057.

Longstreet, A.B. "The Dance: A Personal Adventure of the Author." Taken from Georgia Scenes, 1835. Printed in Country Dance and Song 20(1990):42-48.

Markham, Alice. "To Book or Not to Book," in Country Dance and Song Society News 97(1990):6.

Marshall, George. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 11 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4046-4047.

Martin, Gyorgy and Erno Pesovar. "A Structural Analysis of the Hungarian Folk Dance." Acta Ethnographica 10 (1961):1-40.

McKenzie, Greg. Letter to the Editor. Bay Area Country Dancer 22(1989):23.

Millar, John Fitzhugh. Country Dances of Colonial America. Williamsburg, Virginia: Thirteen Colonies Press, 1990.

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______. "Sitting in with the Dance Band." Printed and distributed by the author, 1982b.

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Nevell, Richard. A Time to Dance: American Country Dancing from Hornpipes to Hot Hash. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1977.

Olson, Al. "Notes on Composing Contras." Distributed by the author at a workshop at the Michigan Dance Heritage Weekend, 1988.

______. Letter to author. 11 March 1992.

Page, Ralph. "A History of Square Dancing." Square Dancing 24(1972)-26(1974).

______. Heritage Dances of Early America. Colorado: The Lloyd Shaw Foundation, Century One Press, 1976.

Page, Ralph, and Beth Tolman. The Country Dance Book. Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Green Press, 1976 (1937).

Park, Fred. Callers' Workshop at Knoxville Dance Weekend, February, 1987. Taped and transcribed by author.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 17, 21 May 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4030-4031.

Parkes, Tony. Shadrack's Delight and Other Dances. Bedford, Massachusetts: Hands Four Books, 1988.

______. Callers' Class Notes. Published by the author, February, 1989.

Parkes, Tony and Beth Parkes. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 9 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4044-4045.

Parkes, Tony. Contra Dance Calling: A Basic Text. Bedford, Massachusetts: Hands Four Books, 1992.

______. Son of Shadrack and Other Dances. Bedford, Massachusetts: Hands Four Books, 1992.

Pearl, Dan. "Outline for `Dance Composition and Decomposition'." Distributed by the author at Hudson Guild Farm, 9-10 May, 1987.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 5 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4039.

Pitkin, Ronald. "A Brief Report, containing notes from a research project related to the cultural history and performance of the New England contra dance." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Goddard College. June 15, 1952.

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Ranger, T.O. Dance and Society in Eastern Africa, 1890-1970: The Beni Ngoma. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975.

Reed, Robert. "An Open Letter to Phil Jamison." Bay Area Country Dancer 22(1989):23-25.

Royce, Anya Peterson. The Anthropology of Dance. Bloomington, Indiana and London: Indiana University Press, 1977.

Sannella, Ted. Balance and Swing. New York: Country Dance Society, Inc., 1982.

______. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 6 June 1990a. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4040-4041.

______. "Calling in Denmark and Belgium," in Country Dance and Song Society News 95(1990b):5, 16.

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Sharp, Cecil J. and George Butterworth. The Country Dance Book, Parts III and IV. Yorkshire, England: E.P. Publishing Limited, 1975.

Sharp, Cecil J. and Maud Karpeles. The Country Dance Book, Parts V and VI. Yorkshire, England: E.P. Publishing Limited, 1976.

Shaw, Lloyd. Cowboy Dances. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1952.

Spencer, Paul, ed. Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Spradley, James P. You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.

Stekert, Ellen Jane. "Two Voices of Tradition: The Influence of Personality and Collecting Environment upon the Songs of Two Traditional Folksingers." Ph.D. Thesis. University of Pennsylvania, 1965.

Sudnow, David. Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

Sutherland, Pete. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 7 October 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4056.

Theyken, Don. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 1 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4034.

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Williams, Drid. "Deep Structures of the Dance." Journal of Human Movement Studies 2:123-144.

______. "The Role of Movement in Selected Symbolic Systems." Ph.D. Dissertation. St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 1975.

______. "Introduction to Special Issue on Semasiology." Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 1(4) (1981):207-225.

______. Ten Lectures on Theories of the Dance. (Unpublished.)

Winslow, David John. The Rural Square Dance in the Northeastern United States: A Continuity of Tradition. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.

Zakon, Steve. Personal Interview. Audiotape. Rec. 4 June 1990. Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music. Accession #91-386-F, cass #4035-4036.

Zorn, Eric. "The 1983 Bad Contra Contest: A Report." Chicago Barn Dance Company, 1983.

 

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