[Callers] Advice about "gypsy"
Colin Hume via Callers
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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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