Research Catalog

Title

Traditional dance in the Appalachian mountains [videorecording]

Publication

1930-1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dalsemer, Robert G., 1943-
• East Tennessee State University. Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (84 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Part of an eleven-cassette compilation by the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, East Tennessee State University, containing films and videorecordings by various filmmakers and videographers, ranging in date from the 1930s to 1987. The compilation includes both unedited and edited footage of dance, music, and interviews principally from the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Subjects

• Social dancing > 20th century
• Square, round and contra dancing
• Child dancers
• Clog dancing
• Television > Traditional dance in the Appalachian mountains
• Folk dancing > Appalachian Mountains

Contents

• CONTENTS: Cassette 3 (61 min. total): Traditional square dancing and music filmed by Bob Dalsemer. Recorded on Super-8 film. Titles on film for the dances filmed in Independence and Addison. Footage of unidentified locations may be sites in western Pennsylvania or West Virginia. The Valley barn dance, Spring Run, Pennsylvania (approx. 11 min.). Depicts square dancing and couple dances. Grange Hall, Independence, Pennsylvania, September and October 1978 (?) (approx. 21 min.). Depicts the square dances Birdie in the cage, Maple sugar, Irish washerwoman, Five corner waltz, Duck and dive, Chase the rabbit, Marching through Georgia, and The lancers. Fire Hall, Addison, Pennsylvania, October 1978 (approx. 11 min.). Depicts the square dances Birdie in the cage, The farmer's daughter, Texas star, and Red River valley; and stepdancing. National Folk Festival, Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia, 1981 (approx. 12 min.). Depicts square dancing by dancers from Douglas County, Missouri, with caller Jerry Wagner. Footage of an unidentified male banjo player (approx. 4 min.). Bob Dalsemer teaching square dancing to 4th and 5th grade children in Randolph County, West Virginia, 1977 (approx. 2 min.). -- Cassette 4 (23 min. total): Continuation of Bob Dalsemer teaching children (approx. 2 min.). Footage of an unidentified male banjo player, alone and with other musicians (approx. 6 min.). Footage of an unidentified female banjo player (approx. 3
• min.). Musicians at an outdoor performance (approx. 6 min.). Includes very brief glimpses of stepdancing. Square dancing at an unidentified location, possibly outdoors at night (approx. 3 min.). Stepdancing at an unidentified location (approx. 3 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2029 cassettes 3 & 4

OCLC

NYPY916022281-F

Title

Traditional dance in the Appalachian mountains [videorecording]

Imprint

1930-1987.

Local Subject

Television. Traditional dance in the Appalachian mountains.

Local Subject

Square, round and contra dancing.

Child dancers.

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Added Author

Dalsemer, Robert G., 1943- Teacher. Cinematographer

East Tennessee State University. Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2029 cassettes 3 & 4