Research Catalog

Title

Traditional dance in the Appalachian mountains [videorecording]

Publication

1930-1987.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Strobel, Katherine.
• East Tennessee State University. Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Description

4 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (189 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. Cassettes 6-9 contain material produced by Katherine Strobel.

Subject

• Folk dancing > Appalachian Mountains
• Clog dancing
• Folk dancing > Tennessee
• Dance > Competitions
• Martial arts > Brazil

Contents

• CONTENTS: Cassette 6 (61 min.): Clogging competition at the Fiddlers' Jamboree and Crafts Fair, Smithville, Tennessee, in 1985. Includes individual and team precision clogging by adults and children. -- Cassette 7 (61 min. total): Continuation of the clogging competition at the Fiddlers' Jamboree and Crafts Fair (approx. 14 min.). Includes some footage of live television coverage of the event. Clogging competition, probably at Fentress County Bluegrass Festival (approx. 20 min.). Two male cloggers at the Historic Rugby Visitors' Center (approx. 1 min.). Clogging competition at the Blue Grass Festival in Sparta, Tennessee, in 1986 (approx. 15 min.). Clogging competition at the Blue Grass Festival in Sparta, Tennessee, in June 1986 (approx. 11 min.). Begins with informal dancing by adults and children; includes views of a crafts fair. -- Cassette 8 (61 min. total): Continuation of clogging competition at the Blue Grass Festival (approx. 20 min.). Includes square dancing. Clogging competition at an unidentified location, possibly in Tennessee, 1985 or 1986 (approx. 40 min.). Includes individual clogging by adults and children, duets, and a women's trio called the Moonshine Cloggers, which performs a dance combining clogging and martial arts movements to a song about kung fu. -- Cassette 9 (6 min. total): Continuation of final clogging competition on cassette 8 (5 min.). Includes a dance by the Moonshine Cloggers in
• futuristic costumes. Cloggers dancing on flagstones at an unidentified location, possibly in Tennessee, 1985 (approx. 1 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2029 cassettes 6-9

OCLC

NYPY916029780-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.

Local Subject

Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental.

Added Author

Strobel, Katherine. Producer

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

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2029 cassettes 6-9