The History of Square Dancing (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Period of square dancing. These Old American folk dances, which have never died out, have revived and spread from backwoods and mountains and plains into the cities again. Yet nothing seems to be known wherice they came originally and how they developed into what they are. For some years now, I have been gathering information from Old dance-books, town chronicles, newspapers, novels of the Old times, even poetry and sheet-music, with results which have fitted together into an outline-history of this forgotten phase of our culture. This history is not unamus ing, pivoting as it does, now upon some great revolution, and again upon so trivial a matter as a change of style in ladies' skirts. For the history of square-dancing is an expression of the ever-chang.

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