Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and index.

Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! -- The reclusive muse -- Lotus Dickey -- Breaking away -- Blue spruce.

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