re: #155 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, my cousin and her family in Brattleboro, VT are huge into it. Also, when an anthropology professor at Earlham College I knew brought Japanese students to Richmond he always took them to a weekly square dance in the town. But the school thing was supposed to act as a remedy to “syncopation” in our music and society.

Joseph Goebbels also expressly forbade syncopation in any form.

East Germany tried to counter Rock and Roll with the Lipsi, a dance number for young people to distract them from decadent western music.

It did not keep them from falling for Elvis and James Dean.