Buck Dancer
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1995.10.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hawes, Bess Lomax, 1921-2009
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content: Bess Lomax Hawes films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (6 minutes, black-and-white sound; 216 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film records Ed Young, a fife player and expert dancer who performs part of the "buck dance", a southern dance of solo male virtuosity engaged in by both black and white frontiersmen. Thus both the music and the dance displayed in this film can be most accurately referred to as "Afro-American" -- a new and creative development, by black artists resident in the United States, out of a combination of old world elements.