Contextes de border pour le sens abstrait
The term Border Morris refers to a collection of individual local
dances from villages along the English side of the Wales-England border
in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They
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In the 1960s, E. C. Cawte, the folklorist, proposed that these dances
from the English side of the Welsh borders - Herefordshire, Shropshire
and Worcestershire - constituted a Welsh Border Tradition (see notes
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and tambourines, although now often also feature a tuba or sousaphone,
flute or oboe. Samples of the border sound can be found here.
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much of the traditional styles and features as can be deduced. By
contrast, in 1975, John Kirkpatrick created a new border tradition with
the Shropshire Bedlams, which seeks to capture the spirit of the border
sides, but not recreate any specific tradition or dance. Their dances
feature much "whooping" and this has become characteristic amongst many
other border sides. Perhaps in keeping with the original tradition, the
Original Welsh Border Morris (founded 1973) meet only once a year, at
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prove or disprove any linkage to the dances on the English Welsh
borders.
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there is no direct evidence of this nor any explanation for why rural
border morris dancers would choose to adapt their traditional folk
dances to partially dress like the minstrel performers, but not adopt
the whole costume or any other element of the show. By the early 20th
century, border morris dancing was referred to colloquially by some as
"nigger dancing" or "going niggering" [3][4]. Some view this as direct
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Whatever the theory, there is certainly no evidence that modern border
sides attach any racial significance to the blacking of their faces and