Callers. here is a Sets in order archive

Subject: Callers. here is a Sets in order archive
From: Bert
Date: 06 Sep 13 - 12:13 PM

Sets in Order


It starts in 1948 so it covers the period when American Square Dancing was clawing its way out of tradition and into modern. A great resource for students of square dancing.

Subject: RE: Callers. here is a Sets in order archive
From: Bert
Date: 07 Sep 13 - 11:09 PM

Where have all the callers gone?

Subject: RE: Callers. here is a Sets in order archive
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Sep 13 - 04:26 PM

That is a cool resource, thanks, Bert. The Square Dance History Project site has a page about it: here. (Go to that page for linked info.)

SETS IN ORDER ARCHIVE
File(s)
Collection
Square dance magazines
Tags
Bob Osgood, journal, magazine, MWSD, Sets in Order
http://digitaldu.coalliance.org/fedora/repository/codu:59239
Title
Sets in Order archive
Subject
Modern square dance - general

Description
This is an online archive of Sets in Order magazine, published by Bob Osgood starting in 1949, and its successor, Square Dancing. The complete run of the magazine was 444 issues. The host is the University of Denver's Penrose Library, home of the Bob Osgood collection. The magazines were scanned by New Jersey caller Gardner Patton, a huge task. (You can read more in this interview of Gardner Patton conducted by Bob Brundage in 2011.)

A librarian at UDenver confirmed, "There is no indexing of these issues, but there is a full text search capability." See the suggestions on how to search the digital Sets in Order within individual issues and in the collection as a whole.

Temporal Coverage
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s

~ Becky in Long Beach