Susan Spalding Dance Video Collection

Collection

Identifier: BCA 0155 SAA 158

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of video recordings of interviews and community dance activities in eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, and east Tennessee recorded at various times between 1988 and 2002. Communities represented in the collection include: Carcassonne and Slade in Kentucky; Dante, Fancy Gap, and Chilhowie in Virginia; and Fall Branch in Tennessee. The three types of Appalachian dance that are documented in the collection include: old-time square dancing, flat-footing and clogging, and two-stepping.

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These largely unedited recordings were made by traditional dance scholar Susan Spalding with videographic assistance by the Appalshop organization and Berea College students. The material originated in the process of Spalding’s production, in cooperation with Appalshop, of two the documentaries All Join Hands and Step Back Cindy.

Dates

created: 1988-2002

Creator

Spalding, Susan Eike. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

The copyright to All Join Hands and associated production footage is held by Susan Spalding. Copyright to Step Back Cindy and associated production footage is held by Appalshop Headwaters production with distribution copies of Step Back Cindy sold by Appalshop.

Researchers must request and obtain permission from Susan Spalding to copy recorded materials in the collection associated with All Join Hands. Researchers must request and obtain permission from Appalshop to copy materials from Step Back Cindy. Permission to copy for publication must be obtained from the persons documented in the video recordings.

Extent

4.00 boxes_(general)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement Note

Recordings can be found in Boxes 1 - 4. Transcripts and additional printed matter is located in Box 4.

Source of Acquisition

Susan Spalding

Other Descriptive Information

BCA 0155 SAA 158

Processing Information

The collection was arranged by Harry Rice, Sound Archivist. The finding aid was created in September 2015 by Harry Rice and Lori Myers-Steele, Collections Archivist.