Old-time music and dance : community and folk revival / John Bealle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bealle, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old-time music--Indiana--Bloomington--History and criticism.

Old-time music.

Country dancing--Indiana--Bloomington--History.

Country dancing.

Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group--History.

Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Quarry Books, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group -- how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to

Contents:

Introduction : conjuring history

An apocryphal story

Old-time music revival

Banjo pedagogy

Back to the land

The green house

The old-time community

The jukebox

The orange sheet

Anne's a bride tonight

Opening up

Gardening and dumpstering

The Bean King

The Indiana contra dancers' lament

The Gang of Four

Easy Street

Dance camps

The sovereign self

Bloomington Quarry Morris

May Day

Dare to be square

The Shuffle Creek Cloggers

The old library

Sugar Hill

Young audiences

Little Bloomington

Eight miles from town

The piano controversy

The book

Collection time!

The reclusive muse

Lotus Dickey

Breaking away

Blue spruce.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07267-6

9786612072673

0-253-11168-4

OCLC:

476016275