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  Encyclopedia: JIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Jive Turkey is a somewhat pejorative term from the 1970s, most often used by African Americans to describe someone who is jiving, meaning behaving in a glib and disingenuous fashion.
Moder Jive is generallly danced to music with 4 beats to the bar (4/4 or Common time), from latest chart hits to big band music and everything between, in a wide variety of tempos from slow to very fast.
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were a novelty pop act who were the third band to have their first three releases go to number one on the UK singles chart, a feat they achieved between July and December 1989.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/JIVE   (821 words)

  
 Jive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jive is Swing music, or a type of quick-paced and energetic jazz.
Jive is the Annual Cultural festival of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology,India.
Jive filter, a simple computer program that produces a comic parody of jive.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jive   (161 words)

  
 Info and facts on 'Jive (dance)'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jive is a dance (A party for social dancing) style that originated among African-American (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) s in the early 1940s (The decade from 1940 to 1949).
It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug (A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s), i.e., belongs to Swing dance (additional info and facts about Swing dance) s.
In Ballroom dancing (Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom), Jive is one of 10 International Latin (additional info and facts about International Latin) dances.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jive_(dance).htm   (108 words)

  
 The history of jive
Jive can be done in a ballroom setting or with a swing band, making it a very versatile dance.
The music for jive is in 4/4 time, which means four beats to a measure, the quarter note being the dominant note of the measure.
Jive is usually the last dance in a competition, and is also one of the hardest dances to perform.
ky.essortment.com /historyofjive_rklw.htm   (511 words)

  
 Jive (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jive is a dance style that originated among African-Americans in the early 1940s.
It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, i.e., belongs to Swing dances.
In Ballroom dancing, Jive is one of the five International Latin dances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jive_(dance)   (74 words)

  
 Jive
JIVE (Joint Interventions) Partners is an exciting partnership of organisations in England, Wales and across Europe, working to challenge occupational segregation in the areas of Engineering, Construction and Technology.
JIVE Partners are developing innovative and practical support for schools, careers advisers, learning providers and employers to challenge occupational segregation.
This is a time when government and others are recognising the importance of addressing the equality, stereotyping and segregation agenda for the success of their vocational skills programme and for individual success.
www.jivepartners.org.uk   (468 words)

  
 jive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
jive is a site that people can go to if they dont understand some term in and around the Quake community.
jive was started because alot of people ask for meanings of words such as pr0n.
jive was made in notepad and FrontPage97 and is brought to you by the disco funk era.
www.telefragged.com /jive   (139 words)

  
 Welcome to JIVE
JIVE is the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe.
JIVE is hosted by ASTRON (the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy) in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.
JIVE, among other partners, shares in the excitement of the Huygens discoveries; JIVE scientists co-authored two of the seven Huygens-based papers in Nature (Lebreton et al.
www.jive.nl   (362 words)

  
 JIVE - Live JIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JIVE graphs are displayed using the canonical representation (i.e., a set of circular nodes connected by straight edges).
JIVE supports truly interactive visualizations by allowing the developer to delegate some of the algorithm's choices to the end-user.
JIVE binary trees are displayed according to the traditional upside-down tree-like representation.
jive.dia.unisa.it /gallery.html   (1400 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Un-Named Dance Page - Main1
The Jive was originally the European's (U.K.) version of the American Jitterbug and/ or East Coast Swing during WWII (who keeps trying to re-sell us something we already have.
The Europeans however kept using the name Jive, which supposedly is their version of what is done here in the states, (which is way off -- "A bunch of Jive", we do not do Jive anywhere here, except in the ballroom circles").
The names of modern Jive usually come from the club or association that taught the version being done and usually leads into a more structured form of swing dance as time goes on.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3jive.htm   (609 words)

  
 The Official Jive Page
Welcome, Jive is a CA Band, there's Sounds, Shows, and Info here for you to see.
Jive is straight out of sunny Northern California, and is nearing the release of their demo tape.
And to that little 10 year old punk who thought that was funny, it wasn't, but I guess you have to hide behind your computer instead of giving us your name or e-mail address.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Alley/9290/jive2.html   (340 words)

  
 Ginger Jive - Modern jive dance events
Ginger Jive is predominantly a modern Jive organisation that runs its popular modern jive classes throughout the week (formerly known as Ceroc South).
Ginger Jive is a modern form of French Jive that has joined the ever-growing band of modern jive organisations such as Ceroc, LeRoc and LeJive.
With Ginger Jive, dance routines are made up of easy to learn moves, which are broken down step by step.
www.gingerjive.co.uk   (256 words)

  
 Jive Party - Jive and swing dancing clubs in London at The Rivoli. Info, listings and links.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jive Party - Jive and swing dancing clubs in London at The Rivoli.
Plus a 40-minute Modern Jive lesson aimed at beginners, during which you'll be taught a sequence of 4 or 5 moves which will convince others you've been doing it for years.
The Jive Party Disco plays Jive, Swing and R'n'B plus a little Soul and Blues thrown in for good measure.
www.jiveparty.com   (207 words)

  
 Daily Jive
The Wizard of Odd hipped the Jive to bluelips.com which sells embalming videos to the non-embalming community.
The Jive is pretty freewheeling and all, but aren't there some things that non-professionals just shouldn't do out of deference to the pros?
Low-Fi Jive: The Fisherprice Pixelvision PXL 2000 was a $99 (worth a bit more now) video camera marketed to kids in the late 80's that uses audiocassettes.
www.jiveco.com /blogger.html   (691 words)

  
 Beatitude: Dictionary Of Jive
Icky (n.) -- one who is not hip, a stupid person, can't collar the jive.
Off-time jive (n.) -- a sorry excuse, saying the wrong thing.
Unhep (adj.) -- not wise to the jive, said of an icky, a Jeff, a square.
members.aol.com /gethep/jive.html   (1567 words)

  
 Airplane! Jive
Here are the jive scenes from the movie "Airplane!".
The Jive Dudes, a mystery illness, and Barbara Billingsley...
Jive ass dude don got no brains anyhow.
larry.teamoverkill.com /jive   (290 words)

  
 Jive Software: Jive Forums
With over 1,200 customers, Jive Forums has set the industry standard for how customers and employees find answers, collaborate, and share knowledge.
Jive Forums is the only open architecture, standards based solution on the market, and the only solution built to boost participation, resolution and reuse.
Created for general-purpose communities, Enterprise Edition provides a rich set of functionality on top of the most customizable, scalable and elegant architecture in the market.
www.jivesoftware.com /products/forums   (232 words)

  
 Complete Works Entertainment modern jive
Working together with Ginger Jive (formerly known as Ceroc South), we run popular modern jive classes in Bath, Newbury, Thatcham, Andover and Trowbridge.
The modern form of French Jive is recognised as the fastest growing and most popular form of partner dance of the 90's.
You can dance modern jive to a wide variety of music, from the swinging sound's of the 40's right up to the latest chart releases.
www.compworks.co.uk /jive.asp   (353 words)

  
 Dance Expression (formerly Scottish Jive)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You can find regular modern jive and salsa classes by various organisations in most major towns every week, and jive is a social dance spanning the UK and several countries abroad.
Modern Jive is often known as Ceroc - the commercial franchise that has popularised jive with its own formula version.
Here's a few other categories you'll find bandied about in the jive 'scene' (as this is a quick intro page), but also browse the links on the right for more detailed information, dance-related fun, and more serious aspirations.
www.docker.demon.co.uk /dance   (1139 words)

  
 Jive+ Information
Jive+ run monthly Modern Jive freestyles usually on Saturdays in 2006 at the Rover Club, in the Emperor Ballroom, Roman Way, Horspath, Cowley, Oxford with top DJs.
Jive+ runs weekly Modern Jive classes on Tuesdays at The Corn Exchange, Gloucester St, Faringdon, Oxon SN7 7JA 8.00 - 11.00 pm Beginner and Intermediate classes and freestyle, and on Wednesdays at Langdale Hall, Langdale Gate, Witney, Oxon OX28 6AB 7.45 - 10.45 pm.
Jive and West Coast Swing in BOTH ballrooms at the Rover Club, Cowley, Oxford, plus pm NightClub/WCS workshop with CAT & LEE [more...
www.uk-jive.co.uk /org-details.asp?OrgID=153   (324 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from Airplane! (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
First Jive Dude: Shit man, that honky mus' be messin' my old lady...
First Jive Dude: Pray to J I get the same ol' same ol'.
Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0080339/quotes   (1847 words)

  
 More than just a jive dance class, a whole nights entertainment, in Exeter, Devon UK
is more than a jive dance class, it is a whole evening's entertainment.
The dance itself is based on Rock n Roll Jive but draws inspiration from many other types of dance.
There are 20 easy-to-learn beginner moves and a constantly growing list of intermediate moves.
www.eutek.co.uk /jive!/home.htm   (250 words)

  
 JIVEMagazine.com - JIVE Magazine's Best Video Games of 2003
SW:KOTOR is crowned king by taking not only JIVE's Best RPG and XBox game, but JIVE's Overall 2003 Game of the Year.
Please do not use the material or photographs published on JIVE Magazine without contacting us first.
All photography with the JIVE logo on it is specifically copyrighted by JIVE Magazine.
www.jivemagazine.com /article.php?pid=1273   (1305 words)

  
 Jive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
March 3, 2001, FFE Software, Inc. announced that all versions of Jive will be available as freeware under GPL (Gnu General Public License), from now on.
Version 2 of Jive is a complete HTML scripting language with access to ODBC databases.
Advances over Jive 1 include user defined subroutines, access to database stored procedures and catalog, new functions and commands.
www.firstsql.com /jive   (157 words)

  
 Dynamite Jive - The World's Most Unexpected Hip Hop Duo!
In addition to DJ, there will be plenty of other indie artists of all different genres featured on the show.
L.A.'s very own electronic mastermind, PYROTEC (www.myspace.com/pyrotec), has remixed 2 songs from Dynamite Jive's 'mutated' CD.
Both 'smoove' and 'rise' have been blessed and remixed into 2 funky-ass dancefloor treats.
www.dynamitejive.com   (264 words)

  
 The Jive Aces - The UK's No.1 Jive and Swing Band
Here you can find all the info you need about the U.K's No.1 jive and swing band.
Other features include “The Jive Aces Present” which is a band, restaurant, book or anything else that one or more of the band like that we think you should know about but also has some connection to the Jive Aces.
Another feature is our full press/media pack which is available for prospective concert and media bookers to download.
www.jiveaces.com   (530 words)

  
 The Dialectizer
Use these hot links to browse RinkWorks in Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, or Hacker.
The other dialect translators are improved versions of translators created not by me but others who released them into the public domain.
These dialect translators are therefore not copyrighted by me. The original draft of the Jive dialect was written by Daniel V. Klein, based on work by Clement Cole, with improvements by Samuel Stoddard.
www.rinkworks.com /dialect   (367 words)

  
 Modern Jive - Learn to swing dance LeRoc
This partner dance is a style of Swing dancing or Jive dancing that is ideal for clubs and parties.
To understand how various jive styles emerged, check out the 20th Century Overview which pinpoints important events in music and dance evolution.
How To Jive - Le Roc French Jive was the first ever Modern Jive instructional video programme (now on DVD too).
www.howtojive.com   (282 words)

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