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MacdonaldBall

Re: SD before the 19th century/SD cafe fear NC-Great Awakening?

March 7, 2006, 1:53 a.m. (Message 44520)

yes, interesting article.
 
I have ALWAYS been surprised that there is virtually NO form of  Scottish 
Social Dancing... ceilidh or otherwise among the Scots who settled in  the Cape 
Fear River area of the Carolinas...  So many Scots Settled there  in the mid to 
late 1700's (not the least of which was Flora Macdonald  and husband Alan).  
Of course this was WAY before RSCD as we know it today  but you would have 
thought there would have been Scottish ceilidh dances handed  down among 
families...or some type of Scottish Social dance....  I've often  wondered if it was 
influenced by the "great awakening" movement in the US.....  and perhaps 
thought of as simply vulgar..and thus discouraged....  It  strikes me that these 
Scots would have danced before coming to America. But  maybe not.  Girls often 
did highland dancing in competitions  and for May Day celebrations.... but again 
no social dancing.  
 
Gaitley
New York City
Originally from
North Carolina