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  2. Bikini in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s, by some accounts when women at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City began to get up on tables and dance the twist. [155] Other accounts claim that go-go dancing originated at, and was named for, the very popular South L.A. rock club Whisky a Go Go which opened in January 1964. [156]

  3. Category:Women string musicians - Wikipedia

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    It includes string musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.

  4. Lili St. Cyr - Wikipedia

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    Her dancing is featured prominently in two Irving Klaw films, Varietease and Teaserama. [21] St. Cyr starred in Runaway Girl (1965). [22] St. Cyr was also known for her pin-up photography, especially for photos taken by Bruno Bernard, known professionally as "Bernard of Hollywood", a premier glamor photographer of Hollywood's Golden Era ...

  5. Women in dance - Wikipedia

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    The important place of women in dance can be traced back to the origins of civilization. Cave paintings, Egyptian frescos, Indian statuettes, ancient Greek and Roman art and records of court traditions in China and Japan all testify to the important role women played in ritual and religious dancing from the start.

  6. Bikini - Wikipedia

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    In 1965, a woman told Time that it was "almost square" not to wear a bikini; the magazine wrote two years later that "65% of the young set had already gone over". [96] Raquel Welch's fur bikini in One Million Years B.C. (1966) gave the world the most iconic bikini shot of all time and the poster image became an iconic moment in cinema history ...

  7. Sandie Shaw - Wikipedia

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    Sandra Ann Goodrich MBE (born 26 February 1947), known by her stage name Sandie Shaw, is a retired English pop singer.One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (1964), "Long Live Love" (1965) and "Puppet on a String" (1967).

  8. String band - Wikipedia

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    Old-time string bands were mainly composed of stringed instruments.Those instruments being the fiddle, 5-string banjo, acoustic guitar, and an upright bass/cello.. Depending on the type of genre the old-time music is being accompanied by, the stringed instruments may also be joined by other instruments including spoons, washboards, jugs, harmonica, harps a

  9. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...