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The song “Uncle Nimra’s White Horse” was part of this dance’s 1840s “mania.” Immigrants performing this dance in Texas inspired the Mexican genres of conjunto (“cohn-HOON-toh”) and norteño. (20[2])Anna teaches this dance’s (20[1])moves of a hop followed by one chasse (20[1])(“sha-sey”) left and another right in the song “Shall We Dance?” from The King and I. A village performs this dance to end the first act of Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride. This dance, which was combined with other regional dances like the redowa and (*) mazurka, (10[1])names (10[1])a (10[1])“Beer Barrel” (10[1])song popular in (10[1])Wisconsin. (10[3])An “oom-pah” (10[2])sound characterizes (10[3])this (10[1])dance, (10[2])which (10[1])is (10[1])performed in 2/4 (“two four”) time while wearing traditional Central European garb. For 10 (10[1])points, name this Bohemian folk dance based around an accordion. (10[3])■END■ (10[7])

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