Tag Archives: Lindy Hop

hellzapoppin’

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dave

Is American culture black culture? Probably to a large degree and we take it for granted. The GOP campaign seems totally impervious to this and the Dems, despite the tired rhetoric, “I feel for you, I feel for your suffering,” … Continue reading →

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the jazz swingers

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading →

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zoot: just another way to get the gal

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dave

It went with the territory. The American dream was rubbish. They would never be admitted to white middle class America. The New Deal was no deal. Why should they appease the same set of values that corralled then forcibly placed … Continue reading →

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Lindy Hop: Moonbeams and Swing Fiends

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Dave

Lindy Hop was the name given to an original form of urban dancing of Afro-American creation. Its categorized as swing dancing , yet  Lindy Hop was an innovative variant that took the genre to a new level. The Harlem ghetto … Continue reading →

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