People into square dancing didn't hire dancing masters, as far as I know, probably because it's a variety of folk dance. Also, square dance callers were usually of dubious origin and motive, as this educational video illustrates, and participants were not above cross-dressing, in a precursor to today's trans-sexual fad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Wlj20y7tw
OK, so where does square dancing fit in to all that? Are the callers the descendants of the dance masters, chased into the backwoods?
People into square dancing didn't hire dancing masters, as far as I know, probably because it's a variety of folk dance. Also, square dance callers were usually of dubious origin and motive, as this educational video illustrates, and participants were not above cross-dressing, in a precursor to today's trans-sexual fad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Wlj20y7tw