Square Dance
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-5RR-2620

FLP.47830
label: General
content: CDR copy

This tape were recorded on Nov. 7, 1953, at a square dance in Springfield, Missouri. The performers include callers, fiddler, banjo player, bass player, and, on one track only, a pianist. Most tracks are square dances with calling; at least one track is exhibition dancing without calls, and another is tap dancing with piano accompaniment. None of the personnel are identified. The tapes are poorly recorded, and perhaps have deteriorated over time; the 2nd half of -2619 contains ripples, which are probably the source of the sound volume fluctuations. The back of the -2619 tape box states that the first and last tracks feature the Missouri Champ as caller; the penultimate track caller on that tape is "local." One square dance track on -2619, without calling, features, "Exhibition Dancing." The back of the tape box of -2619 has a number "3," and -2620 has a number "2," so presumably -2620 was recorded prior to -2619. See other sheets for list of tracks and durations.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: Springfield (Mo.)
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Missouri
topic: label: Topic
content: Square dance music
label: Topic
content: Fiddle tunes
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 5 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-5RR-2620
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings