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{{Short description|American folk dance}} {{for|the work by composer Aaron Copland|Rodeo (ballet)}} {{refimprove|date=April 2025}} A '''hoedown''' is a type of American [[folk dance]] or [[square dance]] in [[duple meter]], and also the musical form associated with it. ==Overview== The most popular sense of the term is associated with Americans in rural or southeastern parts of the country, particularly [[Appalachia]]. It is a dance in quick movement most likely related to the [[jig]], [[reel (dance)|reel]] or [[clogging|clog]] dance. In contest [[fiddle|fiddling]], a hoedown is a tune in fast 2/4 [[time signature|time]]. In many contests, fiddlers are required to play a [[waltz (music)|waltz]], a hoedown, and a "tune of choice," which must not be a waltz or a hoedown (typically it is a [[jig]] or a [[schottische]]). In [[modern western square dance]], a hoedown is a piece of music used for a [[Caller (dance)#Call types|patter call]] (a call that is spoken or chanted, rather than sung to the tune of a popular song), or the recording that contains this piece of music. In the early days of the Western square dance revival (the 1940s and early 1950s), most hoedowns were traditional fiddle tunes; since the late 1950s, recordings of simple chord progressions, with no discernible melody, have also been sold to [[caller (dancing)|callers]] under the name "hoedown." In the 1940s and early 1950s, the term "hoedown" was sometimes used to mean a call made up of parts of other calls. "Hoedown" was, and occasionally still is, also used to mean a dance party jointly sponsored by several dance clubs or by a federation of clubs. ==References in modern culture== The most famous hoedown in [[European classical music|classical music]] is the section entitled "Hoe-Down" from the ''[[Rodeo (ballet)|Rodeo]]'' ballet by [[Aaron Copland]] (1942). The most frequently heard version is from the ''Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo'', which Copland extracted from the ballet shortly after its premiere; the dance episodes were first performed in 1943 by the [[Boston Pops]] conducted by [[Arthur Fiedler]]. An arrangement of this song featured on [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]'s album ''[[Trilogy (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)|Trilogy]]''.<ref>{{cite episode|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00200fc/|series=Add to Playlist|title=Carol Jarvis and Keelan Carew head for a hoedown|network=[[BBC]]|station=[[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]|date=March 21, 2025|access-date=April 1, 2025}}</ref> Many episodes of the [[improvisational comedy]] show ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' featured an impromptu hoedown singing competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stacker.com/stories/3450/30-best-episodes-whose-line-it-anyway|website=stacker.com|title=30 best episodes of 'Whose Line is it Anyway?'"|first=Isabel|last=Sepulveda|date=August 29, 2019|access-date=April 1, 2025}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Cèilidh]] * [[Hootenanny]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== * "Hoedown", "Aaron Copland", in Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed August 7, 2005), [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }} ==External links== *[http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3thejam.htm Hoedown at Dance History Archives] [[Category:Square dance]] [[Category:Social events]]
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