Country Dance and Song Society COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG Journal Select Issues Available

Country Dance and Song contains articles relating to traditional dance, song and music in England and America by various contributors. It was edited through the years by such persona as May Gadd, Anthony Barrand, John Dunn, Jim Morrison, J. Michael Stimson and David E. E. Sloane, PH.D.

A limited number of the following volumes can be ordered for $2.50 a piece. Shall be offered until sold out.

Please inquire about other, archived, issues and articles. We offer an article reprint service for a small fee.

Volume 18, June 1988

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.

Volume 19, June 1989

Pinewoods Camp Fifty Years Ago by Ed Wilfert

Folk Songs From Sussex, England by Sean Goddard

Volume 20, March 1990

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," and American Poem in Sussex by David E.E. Sloane

The Dance by A.B. Longstreet

Volume 21, March 1991

Morris Dancing and America 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

Seymour's Humorous Sketches by Alfred Crowquill

Treasured Gifts, Joyous times: Genny Shimer Remembered by Christine Helwig

Volume 22, June 1992

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.

Volume 23, April 1993

John of Gaunt and Morris Dance by Rhett Krause

The Amherst Dance Camp: Reminiscences of Ted Viehman Edited by Allison Thompson

A Kentucky Mountain Dance and Set Runnin' in Eastern Kentucky by Pat Napier

Twenty-five Years of Country Dance and Song: A Subject and Author Index from Volume I, 1968, through Volume 23, 1993 by allison Thompson

Evening Start, "Ethiopian, No. 408"

Volume 24, June 1994

Sword Dancing in Bohemia in the Late Nineteenth Century: "In Step I, With Sword and Dagger" by Stephen Corrsin, Illustrated 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

Volume 26, July 1996

Old Time Square Dancing on the Ocracoke Island, North Carolina: Notes from Interviews with Ocracoke Island Dancers, September 13-15, 1992 by Bob Dalsemer

"Bobbin' Around": An After-bob by Berkley L. Moore

Ten Cents A Dance: The Taxi-Dance Hall, Jazz Dance, and the Folk Dance Movement by Allison Thompson

Review: Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry Englandby Stephen D. Corrsin

Review: Chandler, Ribbons, Bells, and Squeaking fiddles" and Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900 by Richard S. Holmes

Chapter VII: ":Country Dances" from Old Country Life by S. Baring Gould

In Memory of Ted Sannella