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Subject: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 18 May 04 - 08:08 PM I NEVER would have expected to find this front and center Page One of the May 17, 2004 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Snuffy Date: 18 May 04 - 08:38 PM And? |
Subject: Wall St. Journal: Morris Dance From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 18 May 04 - 11:48 PM Good positive article about Morris dancing (mostly US Morris dance) in the Wall St. Journal of 17 May (Monday). It's on the front page (middle article--usual place for "human interest" articles.) Has lots of information and some misinformation. Of the latter: accompanists "play accordions and small organs called melodions". Melodions are not organs, but a type of squeezebox, correct? Morris dance "was all the rage in the west of England until the 17th century when Oliver Cromwell banned it as pagan". From postings on Mudcat, I gather it's unclear how far Morris dance goes back, possibly not to Cromwell. Is there any definitive information on this? The article centers around a US all-male Morris dance team, but points out that all-male teams are a distinct minority in the US---of 184 active US Morris teams on a Web list, 22 are all-female and 142 let men and women dance together. "Only 20, defiant of sexual scrambling, remain just for men." Why?---"In America, where it isn't at all well known, Morris dancing was reined in by feminism the minute it sailed in on the folk music tide 30 years ago" . As the author says, "for flouting custom, the Yanks can't be beat". Anyway, I definitely recommend the article to anyone who can get access to the Journal.
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Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: open mike Date: 19 May 04 - 01:38 AM i love the requirements..."You must be a primate. You must have a pulse." |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Partridge Date: 19 May 04 - 03:51 AM Long may their bells ring! Pat x |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Geoff the Duck Date: 19 May 04 - 12:08 PM i tell you something gargoyle. That is more column inches than I have read in any newspaper over her for years. It is also more serious - the hacks here just attempt to ridicule the wholee business. Thanks for pointing it out to us. Quack!! Geoff the Duck. (p.s. where's the tiny yellow writing?) |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Richard Bridge Date: 19 May 04 - 01:21 PM Was it the White Rats who were here (Rochester, Kent, England) for the Sweeps? Impressive, particularly the "street dyke" with a thong and a miniskirt who did a handstand... |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: LesB Date: 19 May 04 - 01:47 PM Pretty much the same as here then. I like the thought that I play a 'little organ' (Melodeon). Les |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Herga Kitty Date: 19 May 04 - 05:18 PM Ron Davies - I hope you'll be at Sidmouth again this year. John Forrest (who wrote a scholarly history of Morris dancing) will be in Sidmouth for the first weekend. Kitty |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 May 04 - 09:09 PM Your fix of tiny yellow writing for today |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Green Man Date: 20 May 04 - 08:09 AM Doesn't the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance date back to the 12th century.? Saw it once, stunning. Or was it the five pints of London Pride? GM |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Amos Date: 20 May 04 - 02:03 PM Unusual! And the WSJ at that!! I had never heard of Morris until I came to the Mudcat. A |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: Les in Chorlton Date: 10 Dec 14 - 06:01 AM The reindeer horns have been dated as 12C, I think - not the dance. Rieindeer never found in UK though? |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: GUEST Date: 10 Dec 14 - 08:40 AM Quote: "Reindeer never found in UK..." Only prototypes, but pillaged by Viking animal activists in a raid on the lab c.850 AD and released into the wild in Northern Europe, Several of their descendants return briefly to the UK each year, accompanied by a fat, jolly, bearded fellow in a red coat.... Reindeer never found in UK indeed! |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: GUEST,Guest Date: 12 Dec 14 - 08:23 AM When you encounter the Morris dancer named lloyd Lachow, let it be known he is nothing but a deviant sexual molestor. He is a former back cracker who lost his license because he sexually molested his patients. |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Dec 14 - 12:39 PM That Wall Street Journal article is an example of New York snobbery - snide, condescending and willing to be inaccurate to score a point. For example, I doubt if the 13 spectators were baffled by the performance. No doubt they had heard of humans dancing to music before. When the September 11th attacks occurred in 2001, we were all truly horrified and grieving. But there's a satirical paper called The Onion which let the proper amount of time pass, and then it published an article headed: "Nation feels temporary sympathy for New York." The article above shows you why. |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Dec 14 - 08:42 PM I was wrong. It was: NATION FEELS TEMPORARY AFFECTION FOR NEW YORK |
Subject: RE: Morris Dancing / Wall Street Journal From: EBarnacle Date: 26 May 17 - 12:32 PM I have been reading "Will in the World." It states that that Morris is a corruption of Moorish. Looking at the costumes, that would make sense. The book states that Morris was probably one of Shakespeare's early influences. |
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