TX Tommy History - Lindy Hop and Swing Dance
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The Texas Tommy is one of the most foundational 8 count moves in Lindy Hop - but why is it called that? Where did it come from? This "move" has a long and interesting history that says a lot about Black dance, popular culture, and how Lindy Hop is danced today.
SOURCES:
TX TommyRebecca Strickland's Masters Thesis: diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandor...
Jazz Dance, Marhsall & Jean Stearns
Video of OG TX Tommy: • Texas Tommy Swing Danc...
Darktown Follies: www.rem.routledge.com/article...
Zigfield Follies: www.musicals101.com/ziegfolli...
On Al Jolson, the Jazz Singer, and Blackface:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...
www.britannica.com/topic/The-...
www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...
Tiktok & Stolen Dances of Black Creators: • A Brief History on Sto...
Other:
Margaret Batuicheck's Master's Thesis, The Lindy
PLAYLISTS
MUSIC: open.spotify.com/playlist/2QV...
HISTORY: • Lindy Hop History
INSPIRATION: • Inspiration
MUSIC:
Brooks Prumo Orchestra - brooksprumoorchestra.bandcamp....
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... "But the feeling is gone". That is right.
Appriciate the amount of editing went into this video. Great content as always! ❤️
My wife and I are new to swing dancing, Lindy Hop specifically. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This video was very educational and well done. Thank you for all your hard work on this and all your other videos.
I LOVE your dramatic reading of those old quotes!
Lol! Thanks for indulging me.
Amazing video, Laura! Also, I love the voices you used for the old quotes hhahaaha
This video is awesome. I was just informed of this dance from an older black gentleman.
I went to a westie thing and this fella explained it to me.
What he explained lines up directly with your video. Very accurate stuff here 👍👍 thank you! ❤️
Nice work
Such a great video, Laura, so much to think about. Thank you!
You are fabulous
I had to watch this video 3 times cause I kept getting distracted by the greatest Henry Red Allen song on the planet that's playing in the background. But I promise I came here to learn.
omg, right!? That song is the NASTIEST! And Henry Red Allen is the nastiest. Though this is actually the Brooks Prumo Orchestra ;) TH-cam would definitely not allow me to play HRA's version.
Yaaaaasssss and guess what I'll be buying when I get home :D
I'd like to start a little conversation on this appropriation stuff. The original black dancers took some parts of their cultures, of older dances, and made new ones. And those new ones also had countles variants, everyone was dancing something slightly different, because the dance, like everything else, evolved over time and land. Now I became a teache in Europe and I find there are two basic approaches: either one preserves the dance as it was, or one tries to change it. I am in the changing camp where we mainly try to find ways to dance stuff in more comfortable, balanced and conneted (between partners) ways. Those ways sometimes differ from what we see on old videos. I think of it as a further evolution of the dance, a natural course if people are using it. We are teaching our students where the dance came from, but I think now it evolved into something much bigger and different and I regard the other approach as basically subscribing historical reconstruction teams. I like historical reconstructions, but it's not dancing the dance that's living today. I am curious of what other people might think about it.
omg the hip hop plie clip killed me
The hip hop clip is legend.
Was just going to say the same thing, the cringe is strong with that one....
She's not appropriating (stealing and profiting)
from this distinctive
part of Black/African
Diasporic history/culture.
She's sharing her loving
(and respectful) appreciation
of this form.
Here's an example of
appropriating Black/African
diasporic culture...
...back in the day, a
man named Louie Jordan
innovated and popularized
a forrm of Jazz/R&B
called Jump Blues.
A Country and Western
band saw the rising
populariy of Black/African
American R&B among
White/Euro American
youth, hired writers,
arrangers, and producers
employed by Louis
Jordan and profited
from the hit songs
they wrote along with
(then) current hit songs
by Black/African American
artists... without giving due
credit to the culture or
artists that inspired them.
THAT... was the type of
rip off enabled by the
racism and abuses of
power dominant in
1940s/1950s U.S.
The band who profited
by the rape of culture was
Bill Haley And The Comets.
This woman is not profiting
by raping my ancestors culture. She's sharing her
love and respect for it.
Any profit she gains dur to
respectful, loving, regard
for my kin's contribution (as
the foundation of popular
culture) is DUE TO HER.
There is a big difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. A vast difference.
Leave her alone.
The affects of cultural appropriation are real and very serious thing today.
I myself (and my kin) don't need the distraction of someone "sounding the alarm" because someone who's White loves what we've done... with pure intention and integrity.
I actually want to learn this dance!
Right? Rebecca Strickland, the person who wrote the thesis, actually lifted the dancing from that one historical clip with a partner. Other than that, I have no idea who has experiance with it.
hahahahaha i do love all the quotes too! LOL
They are so extreme!
Pew pew!
It’s always interesting to find out more about our country’s long history of racism. It’s easy to think that it’s a thing of the past but that couldn’t be further from the truth: racism is alive and well today, though it can be harder for people like me to see (middle-class white), for example, Blacks and Hispanics have fewer opportunities regarding education and employment, and they’re more likely to be unfairly jailed.
Today we see more overt racism towards the Chinese, who we want to paint as unsavory characters. Because of their prosperity, they pose a threat to the US Empire so we may try to subjugate them via war, and to make sure we’re all on board, the MSM habitually portrays them in the worst possible light.
Yeah - racism and economics you're together very well. It's much easier to be racist you feel financially at risk, or you have something to gain from dismissing a group of people.
i have plenty of time, pls tell more (:
lol - I'm in the middle of a few other research projects. More is on the way ;)
Geez. It sounds like each incident of a lady falling into an orchestra pit during a Texas Tommy would rate a crash site investigation.
Don't you feel a LITTLE hypocritical lecturing us about appropriating black art? You can lecture us, or make money off it; not both.
@nineteenfortyeight6762
She's not appropriating (stealing and profiting)
from this distinctive
part of Black/African
Diasporic history/culture.
She's sharing her loving
(and respectful) appreciation
of this form.
Here's an example of
appropriating Black/African
diasporic culture...
...back in the day, a
man named Louie Jordan
innovated and popularized
a forrm of Jazz/R&B
called Jump Blues.
A Country and Western
band saw the rising
populariy of Black/African
American R&B among
White/Euro American
youth, hired writers,
arrangers, and producers
employed by Louis
Jordan and profited
from the hit songs
they wrote along with
(then) current hit songs
by Black/African American
artists... without giving due
credit to the culture or
artists that inspired them.
THAT... was the type of
rip off enabled by the
racism and abuses of
power dominant in
1940s/1950s U.S.
The band who profited
by the rape of culture was
Bill Haley And The Comets.
This woman is not profiting
by raping my ancestors culture. She's sharing her
love and respect for it.
Any profit she gains dur to
respectful, loving, regard
for my kin's contribution (as
the foundation of popular
culture) is DUE TO HER.
There is a big difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. A vast difference.
Leave her alone.
The affects of cultural appropriation are real and very serious thing today.
I myself (and my kin) don't need the distraction of someone "sounding the alarm" because someone who's White loves what we've done... with pure intention and integrity.