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• Books
  ...ficulties. Some books deal with dance and it's associated music, some with dance only or the tunes only, etc. Some authors write from a perspective that in [[Dance_Bibliography|Social Dance Bibliography ]]
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• 20th Century Dances
  ...still looked back to [[John Playford]] for the definitive body of English dance. ...50s, spearheaded by the [[EFDSS]], followed in the 1980s by an new English dance movement which was spawned in the musical seed bed of the folk clubs and fl
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• Nottingham Swing
  This version of the dance differs from what is danced now. These days, the first couple return to fir Information extracted from the [[Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society]], Vol 3 No.2 (1937)
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• Double Bass
  ...ccompaniment and in dance bands. It brought many influences from Scottish Dance music and from American music and was played almost exclusively pizzicato. ...as and bass saxophones but the double bass retained a place in some social dance bands.
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• Soldier's Joy (dance)
  Source: [[Community Dance Manuals]] - [[CDM7]] [[Category:Social Dance]]
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• Historical Resources
  ...clear, if at all, where the demarcation between 'folk dance' and 'historic dance' lies, and the study of one perforce includes the other. For a bibliography of the history of social dance have a look at this list on the [http://socialdance.stanford.edu/powers/Web
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• Polkas
  ...ng with the Waltz and the Quadrille, in sweeping the Country Dance off the dance floors of England and elsewhere.
  1,021 bytes (152 words) - 13:28, 1 July 2007
• Dancing Masters
  ...d remain to this day, an essential component in the transmission of social dance. ...make merry upon a cold collation, bottled beer, shrub, and shrimps, and to dance in the open air to the music of a locomotive band, conveyed thither for the
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• Dance
  ==Dance Research== * [[Dance Bibliography]]. Includes books, articles,academic studies, and links to not
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• Dance Bibliography
  ...and also has a particular interest in the illustration of music and social dance over the centuries. http://www.broadsideband.co.uk ...e containing many articles and facsimiles pertinent to various aspects of dance, including quadrilles, the 1993 Hornpipe Conference, step and clog, English
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• I Never Played to Many Posh Dances (book)
  Chapter 5: Dances and dance tunes <br /> Chapter 13: Class and social conflict<br />
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• Goathland
  The Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional Long Sword Dance team located in the small moorland village Regarded as having one of the oldest surviving long sword dance tradition in
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• Folklore (Journal)
  ...ng cultural studies, popular culture, cultural anthropology, ethnology and social history.
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• Ashover Ms
  This item is a brief manuscript tune book, containing 16 dance tunes, Most pages contain dance instructions in the stylised manner of the printed
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• Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music
  See also [[Dance Bibliography]] for research on Dance. ...he Olden Time''. 1855. 2 Vols. A collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, illustrative of the National Music of England. With short introducti
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• Essex
  ==Essex Dance Traditions== ===Morris Dance===
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• Folk Song Scholarship
  * ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press * ''English Folk Song and Dance'', [[Frank Kidson]] and [[Mary Neal]], 1915, Cambridge University Press (Re
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• Anthology of American Folk Music
  ...available music which previously had been largely the preserve of marginal social economic groups. Many people who first heard this music through the Antholo The album is divided into three sections: Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. A fourth collection, including union songs and some songs
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• CALVERT,William MS
  ...the reels and some of the jigs is large, typical of the age when the Gows dance band and their tune books were popular in both Scotland and England. The William Calvert MS is a fiddler’s tune book comprising 52 folk dance tunes and several hymns and psalms. William Calvert signed his name on seve
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• Frank Kidson
  ...he melody), mainly from Yorkshire, some illustrative of nineteenth-century social conditions. ...manuscripts. With illustrative notes and a bibliography of English Country Dance Music ( London: William Reeves, 185 Fleet Street, EC - 1890) ''[http://www
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