Folk dancing -- Kentucky.

Content Description Seventeen video recorded interviews with former members of the Berea College Country Dancers. 01 Wayne Allen Interview 4-20-2013 02 Sue Baker Bowers Interview 4-20-2013 03 Jan Brooks Interview 4-20-2013 04 Laura Earls Interview 4-20-2013 05 Ron Hayes Interview 4-20-2013 06 Tom Lawson Interview 4-20-2013 07 Stephanie McCoy Interview 4-20-2013 08 Pat Napier Interview 4-20-2013 09 Jim Powell Interview 4-20-2013 10 Georgia Powers Interview...

Abstract The fourteen oral history interviews in this collection were recorded to contribute to the documentation of combined food and dance gatherings in eastern Kentucky. The interviewing effort is part of the East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Program at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky. The Food and Dance Trail Program is directed at highlighting east Kentucky venues that encourage community building, cross-generational...

Abstract John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School.  As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.   The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games.  Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and...

Abstract Interviews recorded by Susan Spalding documenting the history of square dancing in Berea and surrounding counties. Also included are selected audio and video excerpts of local dance groups and callers. The dancing is the type done in a big circle that divides into smaller “squares” of two couples. Listen to Interview...

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,...