Dance Across Texas
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Dance Across Texas
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Author : Betty Casey
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Dance Across Texas written by Betty Casey and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Generations of Texans have believed that “to dance is to live.” At rustic “play parties” and elegant cotillions, in tiny family dance halls and expansive urban honky-tonks, from historic beginnings to next Saturday night, Texans have waltzed, polkaed, schottisched, and shuffled their way across the state. In Dance across Texas, internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and, in clear diagrams, photos, and detailed instructions, tells “how to” do more than twenty Texas dances. Previously, little had been recorded about the history of dancing on the frontier. Journal and diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings preserve enticing, if sketchy, descriptions of the types of dances that were popular. Casey uses a variety of sources, including interviews and previously unpublished historical materials, such as dance cards, invitations, and photographs, to give us a delightful look at the social context of dance. The importance of dance to early Texans is documented through colorful descriptions of clothing worn to the dances, of the various locations where dances were held, ranging from a formal hall to a wagon sheet spread on the ground, and of the hardships endured to get to a dance. Also included in the historical section of Dance across Texas are notes on the “morality” of dance, the influence of country music on modern dance forms, and the popularity of such Texas dance halls and clubs as Crider’s and Gilley’s. The instruction section of the book diagrams twenty-two Texas dances, including standard waltzes and two-steps as well as the Cotton-Eyed Joe, Put Your Little Foot, Herr Schmidt, the Western Schottische, and such “whistle’” or mixer dances as Paul Jones, Popcorn, and Snowball. Clear and detailed directions for each dance, along with suggested musical selections, accompany the diagrams and photos. Dance and physical education teachers and students will find this section invaluable, and aspiring urban cowboys can follow the easy-to-read diagrammed footsteps to a satisfying spin around the honky-tonk floor. Anyone interested in dance or in the history of social customs in Texas will find much to enjoy in this refreshing and often amusing look at a Texas “national” pastime.
Slow Waltz Across Texas
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Author : Peggy Moreland
language : en
Publisher: Silhouette
Release Date : 2011-05-23
Slow Waltz Across Texas written by Peggy Moreland and has been published by Silhouette this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-23 with Fiction categories.
World rodeo champ Clayton Rankin had honorably married Rena when she'd gotten pregnant...hell, he'd given the twins his name! What more could a wife want? Cuddles? Well, cowboys don't take too easily to cuddles. But Rena needed tenderness-and Clayton would do anything to keep his woman. So he'd darn well convince his beautiful Texas bride that he was 100% husband material. Even if it meant a lifetime of tenderness...
Texas Dance Halls
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Author : Gail Louise Folkins
language : en
Publisher: Voice in the American West
Release Date : 2007
Texas Dance Halls written by Gail Louise Folkins and has been published by Voice in the American West this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Performing Arts categories.
"Blending literary and photo-journalism, history, and storytelling, essays examine eighteen Texas dance halls in terms of their music, culture, and community. Also considers the predominantly Czech and German heritage from which these halls evolved, as well as the cultural dynamics that enable them to continue as centers of community"--Provided by publisher.
Waltz Across Texas
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Author : Bonnie Moore
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-07-25
Waltz Across Texas written by Bonnie Moore and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Waltz Across Texas is a love story of two people who led a difficult life trying to start a home during the Great Depression. Roy was a musician who never took a lesson but was gifted with an ear for music. This ability was the catalyst that brought him into contact with Alice, a beautiful dark-haired beauty. When they met at a friends house, it was love at first sight. The love story opens up a world lost in time but forever remembered as a waltz across Texas one last time. Though they wanted material items, they were blessed with friends who were brought together by the music of Roy and his violin. The novel weaves a thread of love that weaves characters together. It is told through the eyes of their daughter.
Texas Folklore Society 1971 2000
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Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 1992
Texas Folklore Society 1971 2000 written by Francis Edward Abernethy and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.
Czech Songs In Texas
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Author : Frances Barton
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Czech Songs In Texas written by Frances Barton and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with History categories.
On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. The songs heard at these venues are the living music of an ethnic community created by immigrants who started arriving in Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from what is now the Czech Republic. Today, the members of this community speak English but their songs are still sung in Czech. Czech Songs in Texas includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. The songs themselves are beloved heirlooms ranging from ceremonial music with origins in Moravian wedding traditions to exuberant polkas celebrating the pleasures of life. For each song, the book provides music notation and Czech lyrics with English translation. An essay explores the song’s European roots, its American evolution, and the meaning of its lyrics and lists notable performances and recordings. In addition to the songs and essays, Frances Barton provides a chapter on the role of music in the Texas Czech ethnic community, and John K. Novak surveys Czech folk and popular music in its European home. The book both documents a specific musical inheritance and serves as a handbook for learning about a culture through its songs. As folklorist and polka historian James P. Leary writes in his foreword, “Barton and Novak take us on a poetic, historical, and ethnographic excursion deep into a community’s expressive heartland. Their Czech Songs in Texas just might be the finest extant annotated anthology of any American immigrant/ethnic group's regional song tradition.”
Historic Dance Halls Of East Central Texas
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Author : Stephen Dean
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-09
Historic Dance Halls Of East Central Texas written by Stephen Dean and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-09 with Photography categories.
Texas dance halls are iconic structures that have played a prominent role in the state’s culture from its earliest stages. They became central institutions in the earliest European settlements and provided these immigrant communities with a common, central space in which to build new ways of life in a new land. The settlement patterns of the mostly German, Czech, Polish, and other central European migrants of this period gave East Central Texas the state’s greatest concentration of dance halls. Thousands of these halls were built throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but at present, their numbers have dwindled considerably, and many are at risk.
Dance Halls And Last Calls
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Author : Geronimo Trevino III
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Release Date : 2002-05-02
Dance Halls And Last Calls written by Geronimo Trevino III and has been published by Taylor Trade Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-02 with Music categories.
Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance. Dance Halls and Last Calls explores over one hundred of these vintage dance halls and their communities through the eyes of artists who played there.
Country Western Dance
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Author : Ralph G. Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-07-20
Country Western Dance written by Ralph G. Giordano and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-20 with Performing Arts categories.
A fun, fact-filled, and thoroughly researched journey of country and western dancing from the roots of Western Swing to Hank Williams, the Urban Cowboy two-step of John Travolta, and the nationwide sensation of country line dancing. Country & Western Dance turns the spotlight on a uniquely American form of dance, one that has been scuffing the floorboards for nearly a century but is often overlooked. Fun, lively, and thoroughly researched, this revealing volume tells the full story of country and western dance music from the days of Bob Wills and Tulsa to Oklahoma's Cain's Ballroom to John Travolta and Gilley's of Houston, Texas. Each chapter provides information on the historical roots of the most popular country and western dances as well as the pioneers of the music of a particular era, all in the context of changing cultural, social, political, and economic forces in America. The book also examines the seminal impact of radio, television, and the movies in helping spread the music, the moves, and the good times on the country dance floor.
Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains
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Author : David J. Wishart
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains written by David J. Wishart and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have