Joseph E. Marks

Includes An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing Drawn out of the Quiver of the Scriptures, by Increase Mather (1685), A Cloud of Witnesses, by Cotton Mather (c. 1700), with a bibliography of Anti-Dance Books from 1685 - 1963.

"But our question is concerning Gynecandrical Dancing, or that which is commonly called Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women (be they elder or younger persons) together: Now this we affirm to be utterly unlawful, and that it cannot be tollerated in such a place as New-England, without great Sin."… (mais)