Talk:Hambo

Article needs native English speaker and hambo expert
This article looks like it was translated. Parts of it are ok, other parts not so much, and it needs help. It is difficult to describe dance steps in words, anyway. Also, having done the hambo myself, I can tell you the "lady" steps described here are not what I've done. But it's possible I'm doing a variant of some kind. --Fang Aili 19:43, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I’m bad at English and I now that my translation from my Swedish article is worthless. I have only dance the gentlemen steps and do not now how the leady do (I have only copy a description I don’t relay understand).  Please correct the text.--Magol 09:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for writing the article! Otherwise we might not have a hambo article at all. Emersoni did the copyediting. Cheers! --Fang Aili 17:27, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I changed the dance description as the woman's step was incorrect (could not be correct as it had both the woman and man stepping forward on Beat 1, not really an option). I'd like to change the odd-sounding "lead" and "follow" to "man" and "woman" but did not want to step on PC toes, if that was controversial?

I am also a little worried about the "history" section. It seems to be written from a "modern hambo" point of view rather than from a longer historical perspective? That is, the polskas came first (originating in the 1600s), the came the industrialization in the late 1800s when people began moving to cities. At that time the "gammaldans" (waltz, snoa, schottis) began to prevail and the hambo arose, either, as the current author has it, out of the polka-mazurka, or perhaps out of people developing something "standardized" out of all the different polskas they brought from their country homes. Then later, the city sophisticates brought their dances back out to the country and the gammaldans (including the hambo) more or less wiped out the older polskas. There are many polska/hambo variants (e.g., hambopolska soedra dalarna, hambopolska fr foellinge, etc), but my understanding was that these came from people's efforts to adjust the local polska dance to the pressure of the hambo being brought in from the cities. There were several places where the current article does not seem consistent with this historical account. So I'll just wait a few weeks (or months) for comment before making any edits or changes along these lines.Cpgruber 22:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)