The History of English Country Dance - By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian

Описание: 0:00 Intro
3:23 Prologue: Both Kinds - Country AND Folk Dance?!?
5:00 Part 1 - Playford Puts It into Print
17:42 Part 2 - English Country Dance Grows up
21:22 Part 3 - The French!
27:31 Part 4 - George Washington and Ignatius Sancho
31:08 Part 5 - Jane Austen and the Twilight of English Country Dance
25:25 Part 6 Death... Sorta.


In Cassiane's triumphant-ish return to YouTube, Cass attempts to uncover the history of Austen's favorite pastime: English Country Dance (ECD).

Starting with the earliest recorded mentions of English Country Dance, Cass traces the rise of the dance form in the 1600s to its status as an international phenomenon through the 1700s and early 1800s until it lost its popularity to the waltz and the quadrille around 1820.

How do Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, Louis XIV, and Oliver Cromwell all fit into this? Can Cass walk the fine line between being informative and entertaining?

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Works Cited:
Christian, Graham The Playford Assembly, Easthampton, MA: The Country Dance and Song Society, 2015

Cooper, Paul "Cotillion Dancing in England: 1760s-1810s" Regencydances.org https://www.regencydances.org/paper01...

Daye, Anne "The Cotillon: its origins, development, and demise" 2022. Historical Dance, vol 4, no. 4 https://historicaldance.org.uk/wp-con...

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Sharp, Cecil The Country Dance Book. vol. 1. London: 1909,

Primary sourcess accessed through the Library of Congress, the Library of Dance, the British Library, the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, and the British Museum