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  2. Blues dance - Wikipedia

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    Blues dancing originated in the dances brought to America by enslaved Africans, who followed sub-Saharan African music traditions.There is no documented evidence across the history of pre-colonial sub-Saharan African dance for sustained one-on-one mixed-gender partnered dancing; African cultures apparently considered this type of dancing to be inappropriate.

  3. List of street and vernacular dances - Wikipedia

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    Afro-American vernacular dance. Black Bottom; Blues dance; Boogie-woogie; Boogaloo (funk dance) Breakaway; Cabbage Patch; Cakewalk; Charleston; Chicago stepping

  4. Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

  5. African-American dance - Wikipedia

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    Oftentimes, dance is used in a way to combat stereotypes, empower the dancers by breaking free of western and Eurocentric beauty standards, and help them work through generational racial trauma. [19] Dance is used in this case to tell stories that are personal to those of African descent and the African diaspora. It incorporates dance moves ...

  6. Portal:Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille" Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

  7. Frame (dance) - Wikipedia

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    The frame provides connection between the dance partners, making leading and following possible. [3] A frame is a stable structural combination of both bodies maintained through the dancers' arms and/or legs, and allows the leader to transmit body movement to the follower, and for the follower to suggest ideas to the leader.

  8. Rufus Thomas - Wikipedia

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    In 1960 he made his first recordings with his 17-year-old daughter Carla, for the Satellite label in Memphis, which changed its name to Stax the following year. The song, "Cause I Love You", featuring a rhythm borrowed from Jesse Hill's "Ooh Poo Pa Doo", was a regional hit; the musicians included Thomas' son Marvell on keyboards, Steinberg, and the 16-year-old Booker T. Jones.

  9. Category:Blues - Wikipedia

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    Alemannisch; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Boarisch; Bosanski