Black Bottom Dance

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Excerpt of blues era black bottom dancing and history from "America Dances", a compilation of jazz and blues dance history.
AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film
Actors: Various
Run Time: 75 minutes

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• blues
• shout
• dance
• black
• bottom

[KenMacMillan]

These people grew up & called rock & roll vulgar!

[Spirosaur]

I don't know, but it strikes me there was something new and sharp to those days. There's just something so much more charming about a woman in those days being rebellious than now, when it's expected of modern youth. Perhaps it just feels as if it took more guts back then than now. Then again maybe it was staid even back then, and I only see it as a kid looking back at history and thinking how it seems 'more romantic'

[t4si0r]

5:36 Subo?

[jrockDaisukii]

@motorthings Could you please send me the fountain of the history of the Black bottom? I'm doing a presentation about the Black Button and I really need it. Thank you~

[k775blondie1]

Thanks for this, My Grandmother told lots of stories about dancing on the rooftops of downtown buildings in Beaumont, Texas in the 20's ....She said when they did this dance they thought the floor was going to collapse...lol

[Drblooter99]

@KenMacMillan

Ha ha ha brilliant comment!

[fallongreen100]

y will yall not lik it it from the 1920 s i luv it

[Axgoodofdunemaul]

@KenMacMillan I'm 68 years old. I remember my grandparents telling that they had more fun then 'kids nowaday' do.

[ccaammiiittoo1]

@schizoidchimp An article appearing in The Smithsonian sometime ago suggested that the tango originated in the African slave ghettos of Buenos Aires. From the basic form of the dance -- man/woman in hip to hip contact (and more!!), the African slave population might've been influenced by the equally scandalous waltz (again man/woman embrace while "dancing"). Its mainstream inclusion didn't seem to expurgate the sizzling tango, however.

[ImaRetroFreak]

:L at 2:58

[allenlewis]

Hey U all, have you ever heard of the "Castles" and there band leader Mr. James Reese there band leader? well Mr. Reese took the funky butt and made it excitable for the whites. he evened the waltz, fox trout and many other dances. The lame steps you see on this clip was he whites trying to get down, but didn't get it.

[wasp9]

@schizoidchimp They didn't actually think the blacks got it from a cow stuck in the mud, evidently the movie maker thought the dance looked silly and thought that it looked like a cow stuck in the mud.