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‘There is nothing to be found any more, at least nothing worthwhile collecting,’ my elders in the folk dance revival told me. I was, as I later realized, part of the neo-traditionalist movement1 of the late 1960s. As an instructor of Norwegian folk dance and student of folklore I sought deeper knowledge of what was then my hobby, recognizing that folk dance was defined as part of folklore, even if my lecturers hardly ever touched upon it. I believed I might be able to redress the balance.
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Bakka, E. (1999). ‘Or Shortly They would be Lost Forever’: Documenting for Revival and Research. In: Buckland, T.J. (eds) Dance in the Field. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375291_6
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