Who were the sword dancers and why did they do it?  Talk by Andrew Kennedy to the Morris Federation, 2.5.21

 

Rattle Up, My Boys: a quarterly publication about sword dancing

 

Hilt and Point Sword Dance: a wide-ranging site from Jeremy Carter-Gordon

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Rapper Online

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E.C. Cawte: A History of the Rapper Dance (article)

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Stephen D. Corrsin: Steve's web pages on the history of linked sword dancing

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Stephen D. Corrsin: The Historiography of European Linked Sword Dancing

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Stephen D. Corrsin: Sword Dancing in Britain, Europe, and North America: a  bibliography based on the holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of EFDSS

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Richard Wolfram: Ritual and Dramatic Associations of Sword and "Chain" Dances (article)

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Richard Wolfram: Sword Dancing and Secret Societies (article)

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Alex Helm's review of Sword Dance and Drama, by Violet Alford.