American Morris Newsletter Volume 25, Number 4
December, 2005 This Issue Past Issues Useful Links Search This Site ... Contact Us AMN Article Morris Dancing And America
Prior to 1913 Rhett Krause, M.D. Rhett and CDSS have kindly allowed us to reproduce his two articles, which originally appeared in two parts in Country Dance and Song http://www.cdss.org/ ), v. 21, 1991, and v. 22, 1992. We have scanned in the articles from the original journals, OCR'd them, combined them, reformatted the notes so that they would be in keeping with AMN notes in other articles, renumbered the notes, and dropped in the images where indicated as inline graphic images. Needless to say, any errors with the transcription are ours. All images and captions are scanned directly from the issues. The article is reproduced in toto (although what it's doing in a dog, we'll never know). Many, many thanks go out to the graciousness of Rhett and CDSS. This article consists of American accounts of Morris dancing. It is limited to the years before the arrival of Claude Wright, one of Cecil Sharp's Morris instructors, in 1913. The stories of Wright, Sharp, and the founding of the American branch of the English Folk Dance Society (later CDS) are left for the future. Significant contributions to this article were made by Fred Fuller who first showed me the Irving quotations, Bob Borcherding who sent me the Director article, Jim Brickwedde, Vida Olinick, Dorothy Kosek, and Cicely Joslyn. Their generosity is very much appreciated. | |
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