Music and Dances

Here you can listen to (and see studio portraits of) a dozen-plus popular singers of the 1920s-

Oh, you’d rather listen to the dance music? Okay, you’ll find it here -

So you say you’d rather dance? For how long? Care to compete in a dance marathon?
Careful, gentlemen, the women had more endurance and ended up carrying the men! Don’t believe me? Check it out here –

Here are some directions for the Lindy Hop,

but if you really want to learn how to dance this you should probably rent or check out a video.

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Questions on Music & Dance –

17. Which of the selections would you like to dance to today? Why?

18. What made the dance marathons so controversial?

19. What was the most surprising thing you learned about these dance marathons?

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Maurice Chevalier image (Online Image) Available http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/act2.html, July 2006

Life magazine cover image (Online Image) Available http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/latin.html, July 2006

Dance marathon image (Online Image) Available http://www.historylink.org/.../index.cfm?file_id=5534, July 2006

Lindy hop image (Online Image) Available http://http://www.crazylegs.org/, July 2006