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The 1955 Harvest Moon Ball
Venmo: @bobbyswungover This is part of the Harvest Moon Ball essay series. To see all the Harvest Moon Ball essays, please visit Swungover’s HMB page.
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Gallery: People Looking Unimpressed in Jam Circles
Paypal.me/bobbywhite3 Venmo: @bobbyswungover When we see Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers perform, their jam circle support tends to look like this 1939 promo photo: Smiling faces, enthusiastic clapping, enough positive energy to open a yoga studio for influencers. But sadly, there is little evidence to suggest that our heroes had this enthusiasm around their jam circles at…
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[Classic Air Steps] Baby Doll Drop
Venmo: @bobbyswungover PLEASE NOTE! When considering what to donate, please note the steps, the original dancers who danced them, the names of the steps, and the contributions of the many who helped put names to them are not my intellectual property, and therefore are not what I’m asking donations for. Basically, I do not ask…
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Mama Lu
Most Lindy Hoppers who’ve been around awhile know the name Herbert “Whitey” White and know his basic story — he worked at the Savoy where he gathered together young Lindy Hoppers like Frankie Manning and Norma Miller, and made performance groups out of them, groups that under his leadership toured the world and performed in…
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The 1954 Harvest Moon Ball
Venmo: @bobbyswungover This is part of the Harvest Moon Ball essay series. To see all the Harvest Moon Ball essays, please visit Swungover’s HMB page. Integration & Dancing On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that segregation was unconstitutional in public schools. From the south across the mid-west, the…