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American Experience | Henry Ford Gives Dance Lessons | PBS

Duration: 01:21
Program: Henry Ford: American Experience #101
Broadcast Date: Jan. 30, 2013

In the 1920s, many Americans were listening to Jazz and learning the Charleston. Henry Ford preferred the country dances he learned as a boy - quadrilles, gavottes, the schottische, the polka and the chorus jig were his favorites. Later in life he hosted dance lessons in Dearborn twice a week to teach what he believed was the correct, old way of dancing.

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Post Date: January 8, 2013