clogging (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue Apr 24 22:05:11 UTC 2012

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

OED has an entry for "clogging", but not in the dancing sense.

Olympia WA _Morning Olympian_ 7 April 1903 p 4 col 3 [NewsBank Early
American Newspapers]
"Clogging trio, Forest Kegley, Ray Reed and Ronald Kegley."

_Cleveland Plain Dealer_ 7 Dec 1924 Women's Magazine Section p 12 col 4
[NewsBank Early American Newspapers]
"Plantation scenes, esthetic dancing, Irish clogging, "upsetting"
exercises and basketball game will be on the program of the big gym
vaudeville show Friday night at Central Branch."

OED has an entry for "clogger", but not in the dancing sense.

_Piqua Daily Call_  Piqua, Ohio May 01, 1925 Page 4 col 7
[Newspaperarchive]
"They are unusually agile cloggers and one does a buck and wing that
brings a shower of small coins."

_Gastonia [NC] Gazette_ 10 Aug 1953 p 11 col 6 [Newspaperarchive]
"Warrenton won the best five-piece hill-billy band category and Echo Inn
Cloggers of Hendersonville, N. C., a square dance team, won the
miscellaneous entry division."

OED has no entry for "clog" n = the dance performed by cloggers

_Aberdeen [SD] Daily News_ 28 Oct 1903 p 5 col 4 [NewsBank Early
American Newspapers]
"Miss Alice Gammons, instructor in athletics at the club and recently
from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics and the Gilbert Normal
School of Dancing, will teach the clog, and almost every hour of her
time has been engaged by well known society women."

OED has an entry for "clog dancer", but no supporting quotes.

_Lloyds Weekly Newspaper_ London 2 Oct 1853 p 6 col 1 [Newspaperarchive]
"Engagement of the first Clog and Boot Dancer in England, of the first
Female Tight-rope Dancer, and the merriest Clown to the Corde Elastique
in Europe; and in contrast to the Aztec Lilliputians, the Largest
Children in the World."

_Lowell Daily Citizen and News_ (Lowell, MA) Monday, January 24, 1859; p
2 col D [Gale 19th Cent Newspapers]
"First Appearance of NED EDWARDS, The Celebrated Wooden Shoe or Clog
DANCER."

_New York Herald_ 15 Mar 1860, p col 5 [NewsBank Early American
Newspapers; page # indiscernible]
"DICK SANDS, THE CHAMPION CLOG-DANCER, AT the MELODEON every evening."

Has 1881 for "Clog Dance"

_Baltimore [MD] Patriot_ 10 Dec 1830 p 3 col 1 [NewsBank Early American
Newspapers]
"Herr Cline and his Grand Mother, will introduce their Comic Dance;
after which he will dance the Clog Dance."

No entry for "Clog Dancing"

_Illustrated Times_ London 3 Jan 1857 p 11 col 1 [Newspaperarchive]
"In the harlequinade, the Clown and the two Columbines, together with a
wonderful clog-dancing child, carry off the laurels."

_The Daily Cleveland Herald_ 14 Jan 1861 p 3 col C [Gale 19th Cent
Newspapers]
"Everybody remembers Brockway's violin, Charley Morris' magic banjo, and
Fred Wilson's inimitable clog dancing -- and who that has seen them does
not welcome the company to-night and every night during their stay."

_The Sun_ [Baltimore, MD] 14 Apr 1862 p 2 col 2 [NewsBank Early American
Newspapers]
"The Performance will consist of the Best PANTOMIMES, Songs, Dances,
Burlesques, Negro Acts, Jig Dancing, Clog Dancing, Minstrel Scenes, &c.,
&c."

Has 1897 for "buck dancing"

_Newark [OH} Daily Advocate_ 19 June 1888 p 4 col 5 [Newspaperarchive]
"The company is composed of eight ladies and gentlemen, appearing in
songs and dances, sketches, clog dancing on roller skates, wing and buck
dancing, giving in all one of the best variety shows ever seen in
Newark."

Raleigh NC _News and Observer_ 1 May 1891 p 1 col F [Newspaperarchive]
"An exhibition of "buck" dancing in this half, in which every body shook
a foot from a six-year-old pickaninny to a fifty-year-old mammy, was
particularly good."

Has 1896 for "buck dancer"

Chicago IL _Daily Inter Ocean_ 6 Nov 1892 p 20 col 4 [Gale 19th Cent
Newspapers]
"The olio consists of ten acts, introducing Frank Riley, champion
buck-dancer, Mathews and Harris, comedy duo, Lea Pensley, the
burlesquer, Gus Richards, the "marvel of the ringing world," the three
Ravens, serpentine dancers, Gardiner brothers, musical sketch, Foy
Brothers, eccentric Irish commedians [sic], Williams and Thompson, black
Romeo and Juliet, A. Van Gofre, contortionist, and C. W. Williams
himself, the ventriloquist."

No entry for "rinkafadda".  Merriam-Webster.com has "an Irish dance
resembling the Virginia reel."

_New Hampshire Patriot_ [Concord, NH] 23 Nov 1829 p 1 col 3  [NewsBank
Early American Newspapers]
"The dance began; and as pretty a rinkafadda it was as ever was danced."
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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