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UPDATE: New Discoveries on the Waist-Down Dancing Clip
Before we begin, a brief reminder on where we stood last week: (1) I stumbled upon some SoCal 1930s and 1940s swing dancing footage I and five or six of the hard-core clip geeks I talked to had never seen before. (2) Among the clips was a mysterious couple of minutes waist-down footage that looked…
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Random Notes from Sydney, Australia
For more of Kate’s Photos of Australia, click here. Coming to Australia can be disarming. We left a Tuesday in Fall, and one plane flight later, found ourselves on a hot spring day, missing a Wednesday completely, in a world where the constellation Orion is upside down. The whole losing-an-entire-day-when-traveling-to-Australia thing is not without it’s…
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The Definition of Jitterbug
People trudging through history or talking to old timers might be confused when the word jitterbug seems to mean different things to different people. Even the modern swing era has invented entirely new definitions (discussed below.) So, I set about searching for the etymology of one of the most common words used to describe our…
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