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  • Description of the rapper sword dance
  • Description of the rapper sword
  • Rapper costume and its evolution
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  • Music used for rapper
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  • Origins and history of rapper
  • Traditional sides
    • Amble
    • Beadnell
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    • High Spen
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    • Westerhope
  • Bibiliography
  • Online Archive
    • Early accounts of sword dances
      • John Wallis (1769)
      • John Brand (1777)
      • William Hutchinson (1778)
      • Thomas Bell (ca. 1800)
      • Robert Topliff (ca. 1815)
      • Cuthbert Sharp (1834)
      • William Henderson (1866)
      • W Carew Hazlitt (1870)
      • John Stokoe (1887)
      • James Edward Vaux (1902)
      • M C Balfour (1904)
    • Other material on rapper
      • Introductory comments on the rapper dance
      • Rapper Knots from High Spen - Bill Cassie, 1965
      • Rapper Knots from Amble and Bedlington - Bill Cassie, 1966
    • Other material of interest
      • Winlaton Hopping - reviewed by John Stokoe in 1890
      • The German Sword-Makers of Shotley Bridge (1888)
      • Coal in the North (1887)
      • The Keelmen's strike of 1822
  • Related sword dances
  • Longsword dance
  • Revesby sword play
  • Sword dances from Scotland
  • White Boys sword dance from Isle of Man
  • Sword dances from Germany, Austria & Switzerland
  • Sword dances from the Low Countries
  • Sword dances from France
  • Sword dances from Italy
  • Sword dances from Spain
  • Sword dances from the Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Sword dances from Croatia
  • Sword dances from other countries
  • Calling-On Song
  • Earsdon calling-on song
  • Old calling-on song from Earsdon
  • High Spen calling-on song
  • Winlaton calling-on song
  • North of England Musical Tournament
  • Cowen Trophy
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  • Sword Spectacular 2008
  • Sword Spectacular 2004
  • Sword Spectacular 2000
  • Sword Spectacular 1998
  • DERT 2009
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  • DERT 1999
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