HIST 1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Minuet
Document Summary
Europeans continued to settle in the new world. English puritans settled in new england, leading to conflicts with less religiously and behaviorally strict colonists: thomas morton of merrymount vs. william bradford and myles standish of. Plymouth colony (1620s: boston minister increase mather"s anti-dance treatise, an arrow against profane and promiscuous dancing (1685) Colonists bring their dance traditions with them: english country dances, the minuet. Country dances old english and new american choreography: hole in the wall, virginia reel uses a caller. A caller allows for a dancer to not need lessons. Dance steps are simpler because dancers are older. Dances associated with younger people called hot double . Assorted turning dances (including volta) from 16th century. But main roots are in bavarian (german) peasant dances. Around 1750, noble start crashing peasant dances. And by 1780s, waltz balls are all the rage in vienna. And soon spreads to london, paris, and eventually america. Hasn"t gone out of fashion ever since.
