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Folk dancing -- Kentucky.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0262
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...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2017-2018

John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
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 descriptions of music...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940

Kentucky Foothills Square Dance Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0268
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...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 2014; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901

Susan Spalding Dance Video Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0155 SAA 158
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,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-2002