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福特(Henry Ford)使方塊舞在1930年代重新流行

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Chicken Reel, 1940.

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方塊舞(Square Dancing)

雖然風行了好幾年，方塊舞似乎也漸漸的脫流行及沒落了，直到1930年代早期，由於亨利福特 (Henry Ford) 的幫忙讓有趣的方塊舞再度興起；亨利福特，汽車製造業者，習慣在麻州 (Massachusetts) 的路旁旅館 (Wayside Inn) 度假；他很喜愛盧貝特 (Benjamin Lovett) 所執行的跳舞節目。福特要求盧貝特前來底特律教人跳舞，但是盧貝特表示無法成行，因為他跟旅館有簽約；福特解決這個問題的方法就是買下旅館及盧貝特的契約；他把盧貝特回底特律，並一起制定方塊舞及圓舞的教學課程。方塊舞蹈變得更合乎時代需求，而且全國各地開始有組織興起；您曾經跳過方塊舞嗎？

Although popular for years, square dancing seemed to be going out of style and fading away until the early 1930s, when Henry Ford helped revive interest in it. Ford, the automobile manufacturer, used to vacation at the Wayside Inn in Massachusetts, where he enjoyed the dance program run by a man named Benjamin Lovett. Ford asked Lovett to come to Detroit and teach dances, but Lovett said he couldn't because he had a contract with the inn. Ford solved that problem by buying the inn and Lovett's contract. He took Lovett back to Detroit, where together they established a program for teaching squares and rounds. Square dancing was updated and groups began forming all over the country. Have you ever been to a square dance?

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出處: "Henry Ford, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, leaving the White House after calling on the president." National Photo Company, 1927. Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929, Library of Congress.
AUDIO CREDIT: Harmon, Lloyd "Red", guitar, and Brewer, Willard, fiddle. "Chicken Reel." 1940/08/04. Voices, Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941, Library of Congress.