... celebrating 12 years of indexing ...
(Wondering what contradance is? Try this set of links.)
Last updated 2009 June 1: 8670 records, 6095 distinct titles.
Recent updates:
My goal for this web site is to index every contra dance ever published. Moreover, I intend to include any other country dances that are published alongside contras. By "published", I mean in a book, booklet, newsletter, or on the World-Wide Web.
I'm not trying to index every publication, just the ones that have appeared since 1953. (If you know of any I'm missing, please let me know!) I chose that cutoff because "The Contra Dance Book" by Rickey Holden "is a compilation of all the contra and progressive circle dances which have appeared in readily available American literature between 1850 and 1953." So by indexing that book (CDBH), I'm claiming to cover all the contras published up to 1953.
For each dance, I have the following info:
Note that I do not include the figures of the dances. If you're looking for on-line country dance descriptions, check my list of sources for codes that begin with 'w'.
And now, the indexes:
My list of sources, the codes I use to denote them, and my raw data files are all available here.
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