![]() ![]() "Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system." It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes. Merriam-Webster's alternate definition of tap dance as a duplicitous act of deception ("shim sham") or diversion ("shucking and jiving") points to the subtle political and cultural dynamic of African American liminality - the double nature of the Black experience. Yeah, and he was almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr." I asked the question - but I still got a tap dance. Really corner him, get him to answer a question for I didn't think they were asking him tough enough Were outside asking him questions and uh. The uniquely American art form: (2.) An action or discourse intended to rationalize or to distract. The second definition is less obvious, but perhaps, more revealing about the cultural concerns and social pressures that combined to create (1.) A step dance tapped outĪudibly by means of shoes with hard soles, or soles and heels, to which taps No one really knows when the phrase "tap dance" was first used - perhaps as early as 1900 - but it didn't appear in print until around "I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy."īeing a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted." "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ![]()
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