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English
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Dancing the Buckles off Their Shoes in Pioneer Utah
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Pioneer
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2009
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56
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10-21
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This article discusses the important role music and dance held in creating Mormon pioneer life during the settlement of Utah. Music and dance "were essential elements of the grease that helped the rough wheels of pioneer life turn more smoothly."
In 1997 we paused to pay tribute to the pioneer settlers who came to the desolate Great Basin area and laid the groundwork for the life that Utahns now enjoy. In our modern American society we are surrounded by trappings that, by comparison with the lives of those early settlers, make our lives seem luxurious and opulent. In our more appreciative moments we wonder at the magnificence of human spirit that the pioneers exhibited in their struggles against all odds to carve a meaningful and civilized life out of a forbidding wilderness. [Publishers abstract]