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  2. Social dancing in the 20th century United States - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is ragtime dance and music. Ragtime had a "lively, infectious new sound". [1] Some other forms of dancing that made a huge impact were jazz and swing dance. These dances are both energetic and had their own personality and culture. Jazz was danced to jazz music and swing was danced to big band music.

  3. Jazz dance - Wikipedia

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    Jazz Dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Jazz Dance may allude to vernacular Jazz , Broadway or dramatic Jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with Jazz Music.

  4. Modern dance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Closely related to the development of American music in the early 20th century was the emergence of a new, and distinctively American, art form – modern dance. Among the early innovators was Isadora Duncan (1878–1927), who stressed pure, unstructured movement in lieu of the positions of classical ballet.

  5. Dance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.

  6. List of dance styles - Wikipedia

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    Sharp, C. J. (1924) The dance; an historical survey of dancing in Europe. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 0-87471-105-3; Thomas, H. (2003) The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-72432-1; Feliksdal, B (2003) Modern Tap Dance, ISBN 90-807699-2-4 Bekebooks; Feliksdal, B (2004) Jazz Dance Syllabus Jazz, Rhythm, Body and Soul.

  7. ‘Really what Black culture is about.’ Here’s what you missed ...

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    The 2024 Jazz in the Gardens bet heavy that this year’s lineup would attract more people. ... 30, left, dance to the music during Jazz in the Gardens at Hard Rock Stadium Arena in Miami Gardens ...

  8. How square dancing became a weapon of white supremacy ... - AOL

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    In doing so, Ford rewrote the cultural history of the dance form and set the stage for a pantheon of racist ideas that still animate modern white supremacist movements. Most Americans rightly ...

  9. Modern dance - Wikipedia

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    Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.