[78-L] First country recording?

[Gregg Kimball]

Dave, that's interesting to this Kimball not only because of the namesake 
fiddler but also the connection to Elizabeth Burchenal.  We have a number of 
photographs of her in our collection at the Library of Virginia.  She 
attended and documented the White Top Folk Festival (1931-1939) here in 
Virginia.  One photo shows her filming a dancer.  Do you know if the UNH 
collection of American Country Dance Society material has film, and, if so, 
have you seen it?

Gregg Kimball


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>
>
> Along the same lines, I have recently been paying some attention to
> Elizabeth Burchenal, who preceded Henry Ford as a revivalist of
> traditional dance, helped found the American Country Dance Society among
> other things. She collected traditional dances from all over the world,
> and published them with instructions and music. My particular interest
> is her contact here in western Maine with Stephen Kimball, a traditional
> fiddler and dancing master, from whom she collected and published a
> quadrille in several parts and one fiddle tune. Uncle Steve was never
> recorded; instead Burchenal did arrangements of his pieces and recorded
> them with the Victor Band, including a set of two 12" Victors, "Uncle
> Steve's Quadrille," with Billy Murray giving instructions for the dance,
> and calling it. She did a couple of dozen sessions like this for Victor.
> This was, I suspect, her way of turning the "country" material into
> something that would sound respectable in the upscale urban world, very
> different from Henry Ford's careful effort to reproduce the dancing he
> remembered from his youth.
>
>
> -- 
> David Sanderson
> East Waterford Maine
> dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
> http://www.dwsanderson.com
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