We can talk about the dynamics of why ACA formed about 1990. It wasn't pretty.
There are a couple callers in ABQ that are members of ACA but not Callerlab. But as a member of our caller's association, they're required to be current with Callerlab programs, since that's what is called here.
I got the application too. I get it every year. About four years ago, I wrote to them and asked them to take my name off their mailing list, but it didn't happen.
The original group was made up with mostly (in my perception) traveling callers who wanted a dumbed down version of Plus to be the standard called "Square Dancing" that would be the entry level for everyone.
Callerlab annual meetings on Sundays were quite heated in the late 80s and early 90s; lots of callers abandoned the stale, do-nothing-about-the-state-of-square-dancing pall that hung over the activity and formed ACA. Now, after 20 years, it's pretty much in the same shape as Callerlab.
ACA wasn't the salvation of square dancing and it's purpose in being is pretty much as a lower cost alternative to get BMI/ASCAP licensing. If it wasn't for THAT, the organization would have just gone away.
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Date: 2009-12-22 10:41 am (UTC)There are a couple callers in ABQ that are members of ACA but not Callerlab. But as a member of our caller's association, they're required to be current with Callerlab programs, since that's what is called here.
I got the application too. I get it every year. About four years ago, I wrote to them and asked them to take my name off their mailing list, but it didn't happen.
The original group was made up with mostly (in my perception) traveling callers who wanted a dumbed down version of Plus to be the standard called "Square Dancing" that would be the entry level for everyone.
Callerlab annual meetings on Sundays were quite heated in the late 80s and early 90s; lots of callers abandoned the stale, do-nothing-about-the-state-of-square-dancing pall that hung over the activity and formed ACA. Now, after 20 years, it's pretty much in the same shape as Callerlab.
ACA wasn't the salvation of square dancing and it's purpose in being is pretty much as a lower cost alternative to get BMI/ASCAP licensing. If it wasn't for THAT, the organization would have just gone away.