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Agreed. I am looking for a "How To" on this particular dance. The only reference I have found thus far is a scene in "The Thorn Birds" where Father Ralph played by
Richard Chamberlain is asked to perform the Black Bottom for guests at a party. The scene is 1918 Australia, I believe. However, the
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Much of the material in this article is unsubstantiated. Black bottom apparently has its roots in the rural slave communities of southern america in the 19th century. One suggestion is that black bottom was originally a dance immitating a cow or person stuck in mud and wiping/flicking off mud. There
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While it was popularised in the 1920s, particularly in white communities, the dance has a longer history than this article suggests. In some dances newsreel from those times this dance emerged from the movement from the poor of taking his legs from the mud in the streets, known as the stunt, one of
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I have seen online historic film footage of how Black Bottom Stomp was done in the U.S. during (what seemed to be) the 1940s or 1950s, possibly earlier (though I think it had audio). I ran across it while looking for video examples of old
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Basic information to add to this article: why exactly Jelly Roll Morton named his song for a neighborhood of
Detroit (when the Knowledge (XXG) article about him doesn't mention the city of Detroit at all).
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A useful resource which may actually be inaccurate: Malone, Jacqui. Steppin' on the Blues: The
Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
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It's also worth mentioning that this dance is popular again in contemporary swing dance communities.
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