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| Anglo-American Folk Dance |
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three classes
-privileged, wealthy class
-poor, working families
-african slaves |
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| Geography, terrain, and climate |
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Eastern and Southern eastern
Appalachian mountain region-from georgia to maine in the north
the Southern Appalachian States are- Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama |
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NR: timber
Agriculture: poor, rural mountain |
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Many home crafts were cultivated due to poor economy of the mountain people.
-whittling,sewing clothes, making cane chairs, making brooms, making soap, playing stringed instruments |
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| Leather shoes, wooden floors, lumber was plentiful. |
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| neighboring people and immigrant |
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| African-american; Cherokees and other tribes |
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String band:Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, string bass
Later: inclusion of the banjo, which was an African instrument
Mountain Dulcimer used primarily to accompany singing
Odd instruments: Spoons, jugs etc
Musical rhythms/meter; almost exclusively 2/4 and 4/4 |
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| Asheville Mountain Music and Clog dance in july each year |
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Couple dance: Smooth and clog
Buck (solo) dance: always clog |
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