Dance music
By: Edited by Richard K. Spottswood
Contributors: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory; Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
Series: Folk music in America -- v. 3-5
Published: 1976
Language: eng
Format: [Sound recording]
Subjects: Folk music; Dance music; Ragtime music; Jazz
Notes: "A bicentennial project: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song"; includes recordings from field and commercial sources.

Program notes, including words of the songs, and bibliographical and discographical references, inserted in containers.

Various performers.

Recorded 1926-75.
Table of contents: title: [1] Breakdowns & waltzes: Kenesaw Mountain rag (Seven Foot Dilly and his Dill Pickles) ; She's got good dry goods (Little Buddy Doyle) ; Green meadow waltz (Adolph Hofner and his orchestra) ; Polska from Boda/Soldiers joy (Edwin Johnson Swedish Trio) ; Alabama blues/Boot that thing (Booker T. Sapps, Roger Matthews, and Jesse Flowers) ; Days of '49 (The Bog Trotters) ; Far in the mountain (The Red Headed Fiddlers) ; Warm wipe stomp (Macon Ed and Tampa Joe) ; Aldeline waltz (East Texas Serenaders) ; Waltz (Mike Enis Group) ; The rabbit in the pea patch (Uncle Dave Macon and the Fruit-Jar Drinkers) ; John Henry/Cripple Creek (Paul, Vernon, and Wade Miles) ; Belle of Point Clare (Arteleus Mistric) ; Acadian air (Evangeline Band) ; Old Joe (Nashville Washboard Band); title: [2] Reels, polkas & more: Icek rekrut (Fr. Dukli Wiejska Banda) ; Polka z treśnowa (Jan Wyskowski) ; Polka Wiesmiaczka (Ulożyl i Odegral Paweł Humeniak) ; Pepic̆ka neb zamilovany kuchar (Bac̆ova C̆eska Kapela) ; La polvadera (El Ciego Melquiades) ; Flora perdida (Conjunto de Maxie Granados) ; Polka (Mike Enis Group) ; Acadian air (Evangeline Band) ; J'tais au bal hier au soir (S.D. Courville, Dennis McGee, and Marc Savoy) ; Sabalowa (S. Bachleda, Karola Stocha Oryginalna Muzyka Góralska) ; Brown's hornpipe (Margaret McNiff-Locke's Instrumental Trio) ; Around the old turf fire (Flanagan Brothers) ; The Cavan Lassies (Packie Dolan and his Melody Boys) ;; title: Medley of Irish reels (P. Killoran and P. Sweeney) ; Miss McLeods reel (Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers) ; Medley of reels (L.P. Baxter and Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra); title: [3] Ragtime, jazz & more: Dowbush kozak (Ukrainska Selska Orchestra) ; Tanec pid werbamy (Pawlo Humeniuk) ; Pidkamec̆ka kolomyjka (Josef Pizio) ; Tarantella (Michiele Lentine and Antonio Papariello) ; California cotillion (The Bog Trotters) ; Oua, oua (Kanui and Lula) ; Minnehaha (Andy Iona and his Islanders) ; Blan-Olles gȧnglȧt/Visby (Edwin Johnson Swedish Trio) ; Kansas City dog walk (Charlie Turner) ; Acorn stomp (East Texas Serenaders) ; Frog hop (Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers) ; Haven't got a dollar to pay your house rent man (Genevieve Davis) ; Arkansas shout (Sammie Lewis and his Bamville Syncopators) ; I can't be satisfied/Who walks in when I walk out (Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys) ; Rolling mill stomp (State Street Stompers).