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“There is practically speaking no Meron melody that accompanies a simple group circle dance. Only the debka... is danced by a group -- nevertheless this dance, by its tempo, its steps and its choreography -- is not related to the Hassidic circle dances... [it consists of a] traditional Druze dance of which the form and the steps (if not the music) entered the Israeli secular repertoire in the same way it entered the Hassidic repertoire.” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960s-1970s]. Hadju 1971, p. 82.
“Debka” [Israel, 1970s]. Mazor 1974, p. 180 ( # 36). (Musical notation and recording references included).
See Tants-nign.