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Book Synopsis
Internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and tells how to do more than twenty traditional Texas dances.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Background of Texas Dances
    • 1. Overview of Texas Dancing
    • 2. Early Texas Dancing
    • 3. Music and Musicians
    • 4. Homespuns and Satins, Buckskins and Boughten Suits
    • 5. Dancing Was Lively despite Obstacles
    • 6. Country Music Influence
    • 7. The Honky-Tonk
    • 8. Texas Dance Halls and Clubs
  • Part Two. How to Do Texas Dances
    • 9. General Information
    • 10. Texas Dances
      • Cotton-eyed Joe
      • Cowboy Polka (Jessie Polka)
      • Double Shuffle
      • Garden Waltz
      • Freeze
      • Four Corners
      • Heel-and-Toe Polka
      • Herr Schmidt
      • Mexican Polka
      • Mixer Dances
      • One-Step
      • Seven-Step Polka
      • Put Your Little Foot (New Shoes, Varsouviana)
      • Ten Pretty Girls
      • Texas Shuffle Step
      • Two-Step, Polka Two-Step
      • Waltz across Texas, Spoke-Line Waltz
      • Waltz, Couple
      • Western Schottische
      • Western Swing
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/1985
      ISBN13: 9780292715516, 978-0292715516
      ISBN10: 029271551X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and tells how to do more than twenty traditional Texas dances.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Part One. Background of Texas Dances
        • 1. Overview of Texas Dancing
        • 2. Early Texas Dancing
        • 3. Music and Musicians
        • 4. Homespuns and Satins, Buckskins and Boughten Suits
        • 5. Dancing Was Lively despite Obstacles
        • 6. Country Music Influence
        • 7. The Honky-Tonk
        • 8. Texas Dance Halls and Clubs
      • Part Two. How to Do Texas Dances
        • 9. General Information
        • 10. Texas Dances
          • Cotton-eyed Joe
          • Cowboy Polka (Jessie Polka)
          • Double Shuffle
          • Garden Waltz
          • Freeze
          • Four Corners
          • Heel-and-Toe Polka
          • Herr Schmidt
          • Mexican Polka
          • Mixer Dances
          • One-Step
          • Seven-Step Polka
          • Put Your Little Foot (New Shoes, Varsouviana)
          • Ten Pretty Girls
          • Texas Shuffle Step
          • Two-Step, Polka Two-Step
          • Waltz across Texas, Spoke-Line Waltz
          • Waltz, Couple
          • Western Schottische
          • Western Swing
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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