Margot Mayo

Margot Mayo (May 30, 1910 – May 1974) was an American dance instructor and collector of folk music.

Margot Mayo
Margot Mayo and Miss Deska of American Square Dance Group of New York City and Bascom Lamar Lunsford (center), director of the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina
BornMay 30, 1910 
Commerce 
DiedMay 1974  (aged 63–64)
New York City 
OccupationDancing master, collector of folk music 
Parent(s)
  • William Leonidas Mayo 

Margot Mayo was born Margaret Melba Mayo on May 30, 1910 in Commerce, Texas, one of eight children of William Leonidas Mayo, the founding president of East Texas Normal College.[1][2]

She was a key figure in the 1940s New York City revival of folk dancing and square dancing.[3] She was founder of the American Square Dance Group in 1934 and editor of its magazine, Promenade, and published the manual The American Square Dance in 1943.[1] She and her American Square Dance Group perform on the 1947 Pete Seeger documentary To Hear Your Banjo Play.[4]

Margot Mayo died in May 1974 in New York City.

References
  1. "Margot Mayo." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2002. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 29 Jan. 2020.
  2. HARPER, CECIL (2010-06-15). "MAYO, WILLIAM LEONIDAS". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  3. John Szwed (30 December 2010). Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-19034-0.
  4. Irving Lerner, Willard Van Dyke, To Hear Your Banjo Play - 1947with Pete Seeger and Margot Mayo's American Square Dance Group, retrieved 2020-01-29
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