In Appalachian Dance; Susan Eike Spalding employs twenty-five years worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians; Tennesseeans; and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance practices in each region. Spalding analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal; race relations; and the 1970s folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms. She reveals how African Americans and Native Americans; as well as European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields; added to local dance vocabularies. By placing each community in its sociopolitical and economic context; Spalding explores how the formal and stylistic nuances found in Appalachian dance reflect the beliefs; shared understandings; and experiences of the community at large.
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