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Synopsis: Traces the changes in music and dance forms as America changes. Shows the Dance Jubilee Troupe. Images and painting depicting America starting in the decade of the 1780's. Shows a cotton field, picking cotton by hand, cotton bales, river boat, folk dance.
Scenes depicting western expansion, train, railroad tracks, wagon train, Indians, and the hoedown dance. Cultivation of the western plains. inventions such as the horseless carriage or early automobile, development of new industries, spawned the Charleston Dance.
In the 1930's a jazz form called swing and jitterbugging was popular. Scenes of a folk dance with a story. |
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Information: 1956 BW 23:50 min |
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