Dance in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts, with Particular Reference to Indian, Puritan and Anglican Cultures |
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activity Advanced Historical Dances America Anglican society Arbeau Arrow balls Basset became behavior Bible Boston Branle century dancing Champlain Christian Church of England Collections colony Cotton Mather Cotton Mather wrote dancers dances performed dancing schools dauncing described devil Diary Drake early eighteenth century English country dances English Dancing Master European Fabulous Traditions feast festivities forms of dance French dances frolicking Gookin Hereafter cited History of Philip's Hugh Mellor Ibid ideas included Increase Mather Indian dancing John Cotton John Playford Lauze lived Magnalia maypole Melusine Wood Minuet mixed dancing morris dancing Morton Mourt's Relation mummer plays natives non-Puritans Orchesography pagan played Playford Plymouth Plantation Puritan Family Puritan leaders Puritans believed reflected rhythms rites of passage ritual Roger Williams Rowlandson Sachim Saints and Strangers Saints believed Samuel Samuel Sewall savages settlement settlers seventeenth century Massachusetts Sewall singing steps tional tract tribes upper classes Voyages women York young