{"id":699,"date":"2021-09-28T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=699"},"modified":"2021-09-28T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:44:53","slug":"vastkustensvals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/vastkustensvals\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e4stkustensvals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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V\u00e4stkustensvals<\/strong>, or “The West Coast Waltz”, is what is called a\u00a0gammaldans<\/strong> tune.\u00a0 \u00a0It is not played with a dialect peculiar to just one area of Sweden, but is rather a generic type of waltz.<\/p>

\u00a0 Gammaldans is translated as “old-time dancing”, and is the kind of dancing done by both urban and rural people all over Sweden.\u00a0 The types of dances that fall into this category are Waltz, Polka, Snoa, Schottische, and Hambo, with an occasional extra thrown in.<\/p>

\u00a0 Gammaldans bands have been popular for over a century, and many early records were made of such bands.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>V\u00e4stkustensvals<\/strong> has maintained its popularity with gammaldans musicians (especially accordionists) for at least 80 years.\u00a0 It was composed by a fellow nemed Harry Blomqvist, probably in the 1930’s maybe before that.\u00a0 \u00a0Probably because of recordings, it became popular in America, too, among old-time fiddlers and accordionists, mostly in the Scandinavian-settled areas.<\/p>

\u00a0 In 1939 it was recorded by the great Carl Jularbo band, with the words sung along.<\/p>

\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a YouTube recording of it being played in 1939 in the key of G.\u00a0 \u00a0Many bands and accordionists play it in other keys, as well.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

V\u00e4stkustensvals, or “The West Coast Waltz”, is what is called a\u00a0gammaldans tune.\u00a0 \u00a0It is not played with a dialect peculiar to just one area of Sweden, but is rather a generic type of waltz. \u00a0 Gammaldans is translated as “old-time dancing”, and is the kind of dancing done by both urban and rural people all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}