Phil Jamison

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics (eBook, ePUB)

Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics , old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Phil Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252097324
• Artikelnr.: 43177609

Autorenporträt

Phil Jamison is nationally-known as a dance caller, old-time musician, and flatfoot dancer. He has called dances, performed, and taught at music festivals and dance events throughout the U.S. and overseas since the early 1970s, including thirty years as a member of the Green Grass Cloggers. His flatfoot dancing was featured in the film, Songcatcher , for which he also served as Traditional Dance consultant. From 1982 through 2004, he toured and played guitar with Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers, and he also plays fiddle and banjo. In 2004, he co-founded Dare To Be Square!, a weekend workshop for square dance callers. Jamison teaches mathematics as well as Appalachian music at Warren Wilson College, where he coordinates the Old-Time Music and Dance Week at the Swannanoa Gathering, and he writes at www.philjamison.com .