[Callers] Advice about "gypsy"

Colin Hume via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Oct 26 07:36:16 PDT 2015


Well, now we've moved on from political correctness to dance interpretation (reconstruction) I have some interest in the matter.

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 01:40:18 -0700, Alan Winston via Callers wrote:
> Basically, Cecil Sharp made up *and named* the Gypsy figure.

Are you sure he didn't get it from the Morris dancers he collected the dances from?

> In Spanish Jeepsie - reconstructed at the link you have above- the
> figure isn't a gypsy, and it isn't called a gypsy.  It's a back to
> back.

That's their interpretation, but I'm not sure it's correct.

I've been working on a web page about this figure, and the discussion has inspired me to do more to it.  See what you think.

http://colinhume.com/degipsy.htm

Colin Hume



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