In the paper we just completed I used the Colin Quigley article on square dancing and the proposed legislation in 19888. I thought the article was really interesting and I agreed with the opponents of the legislation because square dancing is definitely not representative of a lot of cultures. The article talks about the cowboy image of the square dance so I wanted to see if this was true by looking up different youtube videos of square dance. Here are a few videos and the cowboy influence is incredibly obvious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iput_r2mmQ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czdYZS6FzeM
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