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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -II. Social Dance |
 | | Into this category fell the great families of African dances that stressed individual improvisation, percussive accompaniments, and call-and-response song and movement styles—the vernacular Juba, and its sister form, the religious Ring Shout, animal dances like the Buzzard Lope, funeral and processional strut dances, and seasonal dances. |
 | | Dancing in America tends to be age-specific, perhaps a national rite of passage; fourteen- to twenty-five-year-olds engage in the most dance activity. |
 | | In part the result of rural migration to the city, dances were born in ghetto neighborhoods, and then, cleansed of anything sexually suggestive, they were adapted to the ballroom and from the ballroom, were transferred to the stage. |
| college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_022802_iisocialdanc.htm (1998 words) |
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