Be-bop story and dance

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, September 11, 2008 9:34 AM |
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Don't know where Stephen Worth of the Hollywood Animation Archive found this old clip of a be-bopper doing his thing, but it's delightful. Eccentric Dance

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#1 posted by buddy66 , September 11, 2008 10:05 AM

Be-boppers didn't dance; they listened. We listened to the music of such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. High school kids, forever at a loss for original language, swiped "be-bop" for their post-jitterbug gyrations to 50's whitebread rock 'n roll. Just TRY dancing to "Bird" and "Diz."

It is to laugh.

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#2 posted by minTphresh , September 11, 2008 10:11 AM

yo, daddyo. i dig yo crazy rap! man, that cat can swing! snap, snap, snap.

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#3 posted by blueworld , September 11, 2008 10:33 AM

#1 is right. Bebop music was intentionally hostile to dancers, a conscious divorce between the jazz music and dance that had grown up together. Musicians saw this as a freeing of their art from the tastes of an uneducated, unappreciative audience; dancers saw it as intellectual masturbation and moved on to new trends in pop music, creating new dances like West Coast Swing (danced to rhythm & blues) and Cha Cha (an American latin dance).

See http://www.wsws.org/arts/1998/may1998/bop-m22.shtml for more about bebop history.

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#5 posted by ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Author Profile Page, September 11, 2008 11:02 AM

My server is getting slammed right now. If you have trouble playing the movie, bookmark my blog address...

www.latenightcoffeeshops.blogspot.com

...and check back a little later. Thanks! -Steve

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#6 posted by theturtle , September 11, 2008 12:29 PM

Ooo-bop-she-bam, a-vout-o-roonee!

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#7 posted by Bek , September 11, 2008 12:50 PM

Whatever the bloody hell that is,
it's closest thing I've ever seen to contemporary house dancing. More than the lindy hop, the charleston...

If it's not bebop dancing,
then what is it?

Anyone?

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#8 posted by Nadreck , September 11, 2008 9:36 PM

It's from the "Varitease/Striporama" reels that you can get pretty easily on DVD now because they feature the Notorious Betty Page. Besides the Dark Angel of Bondage and the Bebop guy these are worth checking out for the other gonzo acts such as the contortionist and several character actors that later turned up in early 60s sitcoms but are telling bad jokes in Racoon-skin coats here.

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#9 posted by ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Author Profile Page, September 11, 2008 10:20 PM

Oooo! Oooo! He's talkin' 'bout Joe E. Ross from Car 54 there!

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