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  2. Music of immigrant communities in the United States

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    The Polish community is strongest in the area around Chicago, Illinois. Chicago's Orkiestra Makowska, led by George Dzialowy, defined that city's unique sound for many years. The city's Polish-American community spawned a wave of musicians that are usually considered polka players, though their actual output is quite varied. Chicago-style polka ...

  3. Waltz - Wikipedia

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    The Valse Musette, a form of waltz popular in France, started in the late 19th century. [citation needed] The cross-step waltz (French Valse Boston) developed in France in the early 20th century and is popular in social waltz groups today. [citation needed] In folk dance from the Alsace region, waltzes in odd metres such as 5 4, 8 4 and 11 4 ...

  4. Music of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.

  5. Commentary: Whence the waltz? What's behind the New ... - AOL

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    In fact, the waltz is historically a revolutionary dance. Vienna traditionally waltzes in the new year and much of the world blithely follows its example. In fact, the waltz is historically a ...

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

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    Swing dance became popular in the late 1920s and maintained its popularity into the 1940s and 1950s. [3] It faded away "with the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, [then] reemerged in the 1990s". [3] This was a form of self-expression. A swing ‘scene’ is a location in which social interactions, music and dancing happens. [3]

  7. Music of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Chicago was the first important center of jazz as it left the city of its birth, New Orleans, Louisiana.The name jazz (and its early variations jass or jas) may have first been applied to the music in Chicago in the 1910s, as such hot New Orleans bands as Tom Brown's made a hit up north.

  8. Waltz (music) - Wikipedia

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    The predominant ballroom form in the 20th century has become the slow waltz, which rose to popularity around 1910 and was derived from the valse Boston of the 1870s. Examples derived from popular songs include " Ramona " (1927), " Parlami d'amore Mariù " (1932), and "The Last Waltz" (1970).

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