Traditional social dance research: notebooks and notes

 
Component identifier:
Series 9
Content Summary:
Andrews' involvement in the folk dance revival in Australia dates from the 1950s when she was a member of both the Unity Dance Group and the Victorian Bush Music Club (VBMC). The Unity Dance Group undertook the choreography and dancing for the musical, Reedy River, and when the VBMC approached Unity to assist with research into Australian tradition dancing, Andrews volunteered for the task. Her research covered the history and social context of social dancing in Australia, the dances themselves and the music used for dancing. This series consists of handwritten research notes, the majority of which are contained in notebooks and are largely undated. Sixteen of the notebooks have been indexed (see item 3 in this series), but the first notebook appears not to be amongst the papers. Notebook no. 9 may have been numbered 8(b).
Immediate source of acquisition:
Shirley Andrews bequeathed her papers to Wendy Lowenstein and Lucy Stockdale. The papers were purchased by the Library from Lowenstein and Stockdale in 2002 and 2003 respectively. The audio-visual material held in the Oral History Section was received in 2005 from Stockdale.

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The collection is available for reference.
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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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