Instruments of the west African music culture

When African were kidnapped around the turn of the century as slaves to America,

they were forced to accept white habits and arts. Under the agonies that

they created slavery a perfectly new expression possibility of the music, by them

their used African rhythm feeling with the imposed opposite

European influences mixed.

They created Worksongs, Gospels, spiritualism, the Blues, the precursors of the Charleston,

Swing, Boogie Woogie, Free jazz, RAP, Hip Hop and much more besides.

Suitably the music the slaves connected, for those the dance originally purely more religiously

Nature was, their movement talent and rhythm feeling with the European pair dances

Dance and music always belonged together. If the music changed, then changed

also the dance.

In the ancestor tree of the dances of the Boogie Woogie leaves itself as a substantial precursor

Dance of the Breakaway fasten. The Breakaway was a pair dance on Charleston and

Swingmusik, with which the partners separated during the dance from the dance attitude

and solo steps danced. In the year 1927 a young dancer of name inspired Shorty

George Snowden with this dance with a Marathontumier the spectator masses.

Before it Lindbergs grandioser solo flight ended briefly over the Atlantic. The large heading

in the newspapers read: "Lindy Hops over the Atlantic". For humans at that time was how

for us today the landing of first humans on the moon. As a reporter now

Shorty asked, how the dance is called, which he danced there, answered he him with: "Lindy Hop.

I'm doing the Lindy Hop".

From the famous Savoy Ballroom ("home of happy feet") in Harlem, New York out, caught

the triumphant advance of the Lindy on. The Lindy Showgruppe of the Savoys, Whitey's Lindy of hopper,

1934 in America and Europe began to routes and put the foundation-stone for the increasing

Enthusiasm, which led after the Charleston to the second national dance euphoria. Lindy

Hop is a free pair dance, the influences from the Charleston, the step dance and that

Jazz dances has, no firm dance direction possesses and from a mixture from 6 and pre

weighing 8-Count figures one dances.

  Swing posters

1934 got the Lindy Hop by Cab Calloways famous Song "Jitterbug"one

second names, under which he attained also his largest admittingness. It cannot surely

it is said whether Cab Calloway used the name jitter nose as the first. The

translation into German called "nerve bundles" or literally translated "trembling beetles", which that

Impression corresponded, which a spectator had, if he saw Lindy hopper with dancing.

The Swing music has its beginning in the black new Orleans of volume of the 30's.

The large break-through of the Swing music came 1934 as a white Bandleader, Benny

Godman, his famous concert in the Carnegie resound gave and the masses of their

Chairs tore. On the next day New York was in the Swing fever. The remainder for a final

Music and dance euphoria did naturally Hollywood. Thus more dancer on the canvas

at the same time to appear, had the free dance direction of the Lindy Hop knew reduced

and the Hollywood Choreographen left starting from approx. 1940 the dancers in lines increased

dance.

The name Boogie Woogie designates a music direction, those on the one hand their origin

Center of the 20's in the Holzfaellerlagem to have is. It is the name for a piano

music with strongly rolling bass runs. 

          Boogie notes

Were danced to this music movements, those

today as jazz movements and at that time as Boogie Woogie designate-became. Thus one hears

also on the famous admission "Pinetops' s Boogie Woogie" of Pinetop Smith, like it

the commands for some steps adds, among other things also for the "Boogie Woogie", a figure,

that alternating the right and left leg as well as the hip in one easily

circling movement to be outward led.

The large success of the Boogie Woogie music came over night times to one

To concert in the Carnegie resound in New York. Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Pete

Johnson tore New York and the remaining America in a Boogie Woogie fever.

The Big of volume, those at that time in the Tanzsaeaelen and clubs for the dance music

played now Boogie Woogie music in Big volume arrangement ensured.

The Jitterbug and/or Lindy Hop came essentially only to the end second

World war with the GI's to Europe. One danced essentially on those at that time

modern Boogie Woogie music. Thus it came that the name Boogie Woogie in Europe

not only for the music, sondem also for the dance one used.

Beside Boogie Woogie, Jitterbug and Lindy Hop became for the dance also the terms

Swing or Jive (of the British soldiers) uses.