Table of Contents:
- Sword Dancing in Bohemia in the Late Nineteenth Century: “In Step I, with Sword and Dagger,” by Stephen Corrsin; Illustrations by Ellen Szot
- “Bobbin’ Around”: Yankee Character Song and Bampton Morris Tune, by Rhett Krause
- Bobbin’ Around, by W. J. Florence
- An Index to Country Dance and Song Society News No. 1, December 1966-No. 115, December 1993, by Allison Thompson
Table of Contents:
- John of Gaunt and the Morris Dance, by Rhett Krause
- The Amherst Dance Camp: Reminiscences of Ted Viehman, edited by Allison Thompson
- The Old Side Door: A Kentucky Mountain Dance, by Pat Napier
- Set Runnin’ in Eastern Kentucky, by Pat Napier
- Twenty-five Years of Country Dance and Song: A Subject and Author Index from
- Evening Star, “Ethiopian, No. 408”
Table of Contents:
- Step Dancing on the Boston Stage: 1841-1869, by Rhett Krause
- Morris Dancing and America Prior to 1913, Part II, by Rhett Krause
- Nineteenth-Century Ballroom Dancing: A Brief Review, by David E. E. Sloane
- Excerpt from “He Demons”…and…”She Devils,” by Col. Dick Maple
- Excerpt from Decorum: A Practical Treatise, by Richard A. Wells, A.M.
Table of Contents:
- Morris Dancing and American Prior to 1913, by Rhett Krause
- Dancing on the Eve of Battle: Some Views about Dance during the American Civil War, by Allison Thompson
- Homemade Entertainment through the Generations, by Margaret C. MacArthur
- Everyday Scenes. Scene XXII, “The Itinerant Musician,” and A Musical Festival from Seymour’s Humorous Sketches, text by Alfred Crowquill
- Treasured Gifts, Joyous Times: Genny Shimer Remembered, by Christine Helwig
Table of Contents:
- Lotus Dickey on His Music
- The Virtues of Lotus Dickey, “Sitting at the Feet of Lotus,” by Dillon Bustin
- Lotus Dickey: An Appreciation, by Bob Lucas for Sing Out!
- Guidelines for Performing Traditional Social Dance, by Richard Powers
- Sword Dancing in Austria: The Sword Dance of the Dürrnberg Miners, by Steven D. Corrsin
- Review of Rapper and Longsword Locks, by Rhett Krause, M.D.
- “The Volunteer Organist,” an American Poem in Sussex, by David E. E. Sloane
- The Dance, by A. B. Longstreet
Table of Contents:
- Deciphering Music Notations in Early Dance Music, by Marshall Barron
- A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century American Social Dance, by Kate Van Winkle Keller
- Playford Revisited: The Puzzle of “Nonesuch,” by Francis T. Worrell, Ph.D.
- Morris Dancing in Seattle, by Ken Smith
- New York Assembly, by Anthony Evergreen, Gent.
Table of Contents:
- The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, by Andrew Bullen
- Guidelines for Dance Research, by Richard Powers
- A Collection of Favorite Polkas, by Richard Powers
- Sixty Years of Song and Dance: The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, from 1925 to the Present, by Anne Cu lbertson
- Bounced from Church for Dancing, by George W. Peck
Table of Contents:
- Music and Musical Composers
- Pat Shaw on Pat Shaw, with annotations and Afterword, by Margaret Fennessey
- Pat Shaw’s Pinewoods — A Variable Feast, by Christine Helwig
- Pat Shaw Remembered – Recollections by friends
- The Dances of Pat Shaw
- The New England Tradition: An Interview with Ted Sannella, by Tom Phillips
- The Red Ear; or The Husking Frolic
- In Memoriam: Phil Merrill, by Marshall Barron
Thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their generous support.