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The Chicken Dance is an example of a line dance adopted by the Mod revival during the 1980s. [18] The music video for the 1990 Billy Ray Cyrus song "Achy Breaky Heart" has been credited for launching line dancing into the mainstream. [2] [19] [20] [21] In the 1990s, the hit Spanish dance song "Macarena" inspired a popular line dance. [22]
While the song has become a jazz standard, the dance did not have longevity. Following the success of Flying Down to Rio, an attempt was made to propagate a new ballroom dance after Astaire and Roger's routine, without much success. It was a mixture of samba, maxixe, foxtrot and rhumba. The distinctive feature of the dance – at least as ...
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A conga line formed during a Christmas disco party. The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s. In order to perform the dance, dancers form a long, processing line, which would usually turn into a circle.
Samba-jazz or jazz samba is an instrumental subgenre of samba that emerged in the bossa nova ambit in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil. [1] [2]The style consolidated the approach of Brazilian samba with American jazz, [3] especially bebop and hard bop, jazzy styles quite experienced by Brazilian musicians in scope of gafieiras and nightclubs especially in Rio de Janeiro.
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
Afro-Brazilian music that was made in the circles of Candomblé eventually spread to help create early samba. Candomblé was seen as an inappropriate practice by the slave owners and the majority of Brazil. In Candomblé, dancing and music are sacred, so meetings would be disguised as parties to evade intervention.
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