I’d have to see more of the video than what’s in the clip. Modern Western square dancing includes all of the standard contra dance calls (though some are named differently) and routinely puts squares into two lines of four.
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I mean, I’ve been to a fair few ceilidh in Scotland and I don’t think Henry Ford had anything to do with that. I’m pretty sure the square dance would still be around without Henry Ford, but perhaps not as pervasive. (Although I never encountered it in school. There was a western-themed girl scout father daughter event though that had it when I was 8, though.)
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I wish Henry Ford had lived to see Detroit become Motown.
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Mission failed.
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I thought I was gonna blow everyone’s mind with this Sir Mix-a-lot video and the comment “eventually everything goes full-circle,” but you’ve bested me today, sir!
@ficuswhisperer you ninja’d the fuck out of me arrrrrgh!
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Wait so literally nothing about this entry title… is true?
frickin’ internets
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Just add “The promotion of” to the start of the title and you’re all good.
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Thought you said “Thank Ford”. (Ford’s in his flivver, all’s right with world 
).
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I was trying to learn about the hand injury. I did learn that Ford was presented with the award on 30 July 1938, at the Ford offices in Dearborn, Mi. The award was presented by Fritz Hailer, German vice counsel in Detroit.
This image was taken after the German expedition to climb the north face of the Eiger. The alpinists are (left to right) Heinrich Harrer (later played by Brad Pitt), Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek, and Ludwig Voerg. The injuries were from the climb. The Guy with the badge is Hans von Tschammer und Osten, head of the German Sports league, and Wilhelm Frick is on the far right. He was executed after the Nurnburg trials.
This does not change Ford’s Nazi sympathies. Just detail clarification. I believe Ford met Hitler in 1930.
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Don’t forget the follow up, too.
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FFS BB - don’t be “fake news” that gets cited elsewhere…
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Down here in Texas, shooting junk usually involves a shotgun and some actual junk. Goes great with beer. And reefer. And the Negro music.
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love it. (the theory, not the dancing…but then don’t hate it either…I just remember being the only non-white kid in the school and no one was happy being partnered with me).
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It’s awful. It’s akin to Tim and Eric for comedy - sort of interesting the first few times you see/hear it - but after the novelty of “new” wears off you find yourself wondering why anyone else likes it. It lacks substance. It’s shallow with out any polish.
And worst of all, once something gets “hot” in a music genre, the emulators glom on to it, making a copy of a copy of a copy that just degrades with each use. And the continued and increased use of auto-tune - ZOMG!
Back in my day they had mad beats with wicked rhymes and fast cuts. People enunciated. “Face down, ass up, that’s the way we like to fuck.” There was no confusion as to the lyrics or meanings.
When I stumbled on to the new Run the Jewels it was a breath of fresh air. But then I figured out El-P and Killer Mike are my age, so of course.
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I always liked this song from that album.
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I feel a small sad looking at that and realizing how much of that scenery has changed/gone away.
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Some wonderful person mapped it all out in Google Maps.
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My deceased mother-in-law, bless her heart, was a big fan of square-dancing, which she came to enjoy as a teenager in the early Forties. However, she also liked Western Swing, Jazz, and Boogie Woogie. She bought many CDs of these genres of music in the late Seventies, which I subsequently acquired when she died.
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I know, but some people hope against hope that he’ll actually read the comments and see that the hed and the article are literally wrong. So the secondary purpose is to help educate the people who actually make it to the comments and see that, hey, the article is wrong.
As they said on BSG, this has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
Something interesting in the bluegrass world is that there’s folks who are embracing the history of the music. Not just the Celtic roots, but the jazz and blues roots as well, and the history of intstruments like the banjo.
One group that is an absolute treasure is the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This video is Rhiannon Giddens as a solo act, but it’s a good example…
I guess, but it still feels like it’d be a stress to call any modern square dancing racist, and I realize that’s not what you’re arguing but I thought I’d throw that out there anyway.
Same. I read exactly one of his books, didn’t really care for it, and have seen enough of his op-eds that are like, well, this one, and it’s ridiculous. He seems like a smart guy but he’s the liberal version of your uncle Larry who thinks that Obama is a secret Muslim from Indonesia at times.
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Are you familiar with The Duhks?
They do a fantastic live cover of Whole Lotta Love… 
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