PLAINS TWP. — There’s a good reason why William C. Kurilla dances the polka. It keeps the 77-year-old retiree young. “I feel 39,” said Kurilla, of Walnutport, between numbers by the John Stevens’ ...

One-two. one-two. Senior dancers lined up in white shirts and black pants, swaying to classic polka music at Pioneer Hall at the Iowa State Fair. The first song, "Harvest Time Schottische," instantly ...

Now we come to the most familiar form of O’odham music — waila. The word means both this genre of music and “polka.” Modern waila is almost exclusively instrumental dance music, and is usually played ...