Word: steppin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Honky-tonk songs, like Pistol Packin ' Mama, came out of Texas in the late 1930s and early '40s. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis adapted the style to rock 'n' roll in the '50s. Sometimes called rockabilly, it celebrates booze, gambling, fighting, steppin' out, temptation and, like all country music, love. Honkin' is the word for having a good time. In the olden days the distinctive instrumental sound of honky-tonk was tinny guitar and pianoplunk. Today the new rockabilly is a country-and-western/rhythm-and-blues mix, and its dominant sound is a heavily...
...satirical love song, called "Easy to Please." Even the bumbling has been made into more interesting dance with Judith Haskell, who doubled as choreographer this year. Robert Peabody as Flo Gently, who incidentally comes off with the best all-around performance, does this difficult drunken-dance routine in "High Steppin' Lady," and later, with Preston Folded (Mark Kiely), they dance up a quiet little storm in the "Cold Turkey Trot" (one of the funniest numbers in the show...
...Than Teaching a Man to Hate." The speech is spliced with scenes from the movies and television shows with which white society tried to teach Malcolm to hate himself, the movies and shows that have taught millions of blacks to hate themselves. There are pictures of Amos and Andy, Steppin' etchit, watermelon eating contests, and cute little Shirley Temple, as she walks into her all white birthday party, telling the slave girls. "I'll be sure to save you some cake...