Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irene Castle MacLaughlin, writing mostly on ballroom dancing, says: "The Fox-trot ... is typically American in rhythm...
...floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer and for 15 minutes stamped their feet, bowed low, bent back, sowed grain...
...Rest assured it is not because I dislike being a year older!" flashed II Duce as he engaged the gears. "No?my reason is that nothing must interrupt the ordered rhythm of Fascist work. There are enough holidays on our Italian calendar already ?in fact too many!" and letting in his clutch the Dictator vanished, inconsistently, for a birthday holiday. Speeding to the seacoast he boarded a waiting seaplane, was soon soaring around the toe and heel of Italy, headed at last up the Adriatic in a flight of over 1200 miles...
What, if anything, does music mean to you beyond the usual reaction which most people have to rhythm and melody...
Contrary to popular belief, "Hawaiian music" is not a pure racial product. Natives invented the rhythm, foreigners the melodies. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin, taken to the islands by early settlers and now manufactured, chiefly in California, for export to Hawaii...