HAGE FOUR Dancing: Nothing New About the 'Boogaloo' .The “Bump and Grind” came long before Burlesque, there’s nothing really new about the “Boogaloo,” and even the “Twist” has something in common with the “Minuet.” .Such are the findings of Charwick C. Hansen, associate professor of English at the University, in a fascinating new study of the history, and origin of the American Negro Shaking Dances of the 19th Century. Not only does Dr. Hansen trace today’s teenage dance fads back to the 1800’s, but he also comes up with a unique defense for them against that age-old argument: “How can they call it dancing when they aren’t even to gether.” Not in Minuet, Either “Partners weren’t together in the minu et either.” Hansen points out in a recent ar ticle published by “American Quarterly.” “In the twist, as in the minuet, expressive body movement is far more important than body contact. That may be all the twist shares with the minuet, but it is enough to make them equally incomprehensible to a genera tion raised on the ‘why dance.’ ” And for those who don’t remember that one, it was a dance which Hansen says was even more typical of the ’2o’s and 30’s than the iitterbug or shimmy—“scarcely a dance at all, but one in which the partners assumed a position guaranteeing a maximum of bodily contact, then swayed imperceptibly, some times in time to the music.” Returning to today’s fad of dances such as the Twist, the Boogaloo, the Monkey—“the animal name, as with the fox trot, suggests the Afro-American origin”—the Watusi, and others, Dr. Hansen writes: “It is apparent there has been a long tra dition of erotic shaking dances in America. And although there is no objective evidence for the early years, it seems to me very prob able that such dances were brought here in the 17th century by' the first Negroes to arrive and have been continuous within the Negro community ever since.” Adopted Negro Dances According to Hansen’s study, White America first adopted Negro shaking dances after World War I “at the same time it adopt ed jazz, the secular instrumental music of the Negro.” Even the word “Twist,” forerunner of the new dance craze sweeping today’s youth, stems back to the early ‘2o’s as evidenced by these lyrics uncovered by Hansen in an old Jelly Roll Morton song: “Mama, mama, why look at Sis, she’s out on the levee doin’ the doggoned twist.” “Certainly by' the twenties ‘twist’ had be come a common name for a shaking dance... so we must keep in mind, that even though Kosygi Scorns RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (A 1 ) Soviet peared to be compiling a new list of sug- Premier Alexei N. Kosygin declared yester- gested sites day that North Vietnam will conduct peace talks as “a nation that has not been van- quished, that has not been defeated. A Pakistani government spokesman said “The only way the Vietnamese situation the United States has asked if the talks can he solved is to give the Vietnamese the could be held here and “we indicated our ability to solve problems the way they see agreement.” fit,” the visiting premier said in a television North Vietnam insists on Phom Penh, interview. Cambodia, or Warsaw, Poland. Finding nei- China Accused ther acceptable, the United States has. pro- At the same time, Radio Moscow ac- posed New Delhi, India; Rangoon, Burma; cused Red China of trying to prevent a Vientiane, Laos; and Jarkarta, Indonesia, aft peaceful settlement of the war. saying Peer Hanoi apparently cold-shouldered Geneva, king’s attitude only helps the United States U.N. Secretary-General ■ U Thant also and the allies in South Vietnam. was continuing discussions with Washington The broadcast assailed a commentary and Hanoi on possible sites. Monday by the People’s Daily, the official Kosygin appeared on “Meet the Pakistan Red Chinese newspaper, urging the Com- Press,” a program to be relayed over Paki munist Vietnamese to keep on fighting. The stan’s four television stations. Daily also called President Johnson’s March “We are in favor of a settlement of the 31 peace overture “an out and out big fraud.” Vietnam problem by starting with talks to With North Vietnam and the United end the war and by an understanding be- States unable so far to agree on a site for tween combatants in a way which would preliminary discussions, Washington ap- insure no outside interference,” Kosygin said. HERLOCHER’S On Sunday | Open from 11:30 a.m. FEELING LOW? Nickelodeon 7:00 & 9:15 p.m. HUB Assembly Room tickets at HUB Desk For Results-Use Collegian Classifieds n Cal Chin Dine at Come Nite Tonight popular dance turned away from erotic shak ing movements in the thirties from one point of view it is quite wrong to speak of shaking dances coming back,” says Hansen. “They have clearly been continuous within the Negro community. And although clearly' of African origin, erotic shaking dances have spread be yond the confines of the Negro community ' and are a part of American popular culture.” Hansen also finds that another kind of American dance borrowed heavily from the Negro during the 1920’s—the strip-tease. Strippers Not New Of course, he admits, there was nothing new about, strippers per se, but “the bumps and grinds—the hip movements—first ap peared on the American burlesque stage dur ing the twenties! and unless someone can find a more likely source, I think we must conclude that bumps and grinds, like the shimmy, were borrowed from the American Negro.” According to pianist Eubie Blake, says Hansen, the word “bump” was used by Ne groes to describe a hip shaking dance move ment as early as 1907, long before it had be come current in burlesque. In conclusion, Hansen writes that “in spite of the strength of the tradition and its current prominence in popular culture, the American intellectual community has re mained resolutely ignorant of it.” _ "It suggests that the Negro has been as invisible ( to the intellectual as to everybody else,” Hansen adds. “It suggests further that the differences between the Negro’s subcul ture and that of the White are larger than any' of us like to admit, and that the possibil ity for misunderstanding between the two are correspondingly higher.” Yet, despite the failure of perception on the part of the intellectual, Hansen feels the gap between Negro and White dance tradi tions has been bridged and that acculturation has taken place. Daughter Proves Point As an example he points to a dance which his daughter gave. “Midway through the evening I heard her say, ‘let’s have a shout circle’,” Hansen recalls. “I pricked up my ears immediately because ‘shout circle’ is one of the oldest and most frequently heard terms in the sparse history of American Negro dance. The danc ers form a circle and individuals take turns dancing in the center. I had thought the shout circle had nearly died out, yet here it was in a rural Pennsylvania university com munity .... "The next day I asked my daughter if she knew where the shout circle came from. “ ‘I don’t know where we got it,’ she re plied, “ ‘ but we do it at all the dances.’ ” Is for Peace, ese Position Pakistan OK'd GUYKRESGEJACKHARPERGUYKRESGE u < Ul o u> UJ >• I© For her, it’s the Pinebrooke by London Fog® , . . made of wash and wearable Calibre® Cloth of 65 % Dacron® polyester and 35% combed with convertible col lar, zipper front, inverted slash pockets, raglan sleeves and shirred elastic waistband. In a selection of sizes and colors. o MadavHHDvragsaaaAnoasdavHHavraQsaaHAnoaadavHHDvraosaioiAnoi The Pinebrooke by London Fog® London Fog for men available at Jack Harper's. Open Monday and Friday 'iil 9 (OOCXV Jack Ltdr' Guy Kresge S. Allen St., State College Aroilnd the corner from Jack Harper a Custom Shop for Men THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA —Collegian Photo by Pierre Bellicinl 'HOW CAN THEY CALL IT DANCING when they aren't even together?' English pro fessor Chadwick Hansen comes up with a unique defense for today's dance fads in a new study of the history and origin of ihe American Negro Shaking Dances of the 19th Century, Clergy: Church DETPvOIT (AP)—“The Cath- There are only about 150 olic Church in the United States Negroes among some 58,000 is primarily a white, racist in- Catholic priests in the United slitution,” a caucus of Cath- States. olic clergymen declared here The caucus adopted a state yesterday, as he called upon ment saying that the Catholic the church to make every ef- Church in the Um'ted States fort “to recruit black men for “has" addressed itself primarily the priesthood.” to white society and is definite- The meeting, officially known ly a part of that society,” and as the Black Catholic Clergy apparently “is not cognizant Caucus, was held in conjunc- of changing attitudes in the lion with the Catholic Clergy black community.” Conference on the Interracial It also said that the church Apostolate. The caucus was “is not making the necessary called by the Rev. Herman A. meaningful and realistic ad- Porter of Rockford, 111., and justments.” presided over by the Rev. Rollin Lambert of Chicago. Both are Negro priests. Cooper, Tanner (Continued, from nage one) district by the student volunteers. “On Saturday we pile into cars and spend all day putting posters on trees along the major roads. Dennis took a group up to Oil City and thereabouts last week and they said they saw more deer than people,” Glean said. In addition to posters and speaking engagements, the candidates have bought come radio and newspaper ads. “Money has been our big problem,” Cooper said. “We didn’t realize when we started how helpful it can be to a politician to have a rich father.” Several townspeople have' contributed to the campaign, and "some of the money was alloted to mailing brief state ments on the candidates’ position. ’ r '< Early in the campaign, the candidates realized that they would have to depend heavily on volunteers to make up for the scarcity of funds. About thirty regular workers, mostly members of YAF and some political science stu dents, are working for Cooper-Tanner, The candidates plan to have volunteers at all the polls in State College on primary day, April 23. All of the volun teers are students, and less than half are of voting age. Cooper denied that the 'student image’ would hurt the campaign. “McCarthy people cleaned up for Gene, and we are all pretty clean already. I think we have a great image,” Cooper said. iackharperguykresgejackharper Recruiting Needed “One of these changes must be a re-evaluation of present attitudes towards black mili- j - TEMPLE - LA SALLE - GANNON - OGONTZ - P. 5. U. - | i PERSHING RIFLES f z DRILL | ! % ■ ' _ «|p\ i 1 STATEWIDE CHAMPIONSHIP * | ALL DAY, SAT, APRIL 20 ICE PAVILION § g ADMISSION FREE |2 5 Don't Miss It I § " o 1 - ARMY OLD GUARD - LEHIGH - WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON - I USG SPRING WEEK ARTS FESTIVAL May 5 8:30 'Rac tancy,” the caucus said. The Negro priests went on record as recognizing the reali ty of militant protest and that nonviolence in the sense of black nonviolence hoping for concessions after white brutali ty is dead. They said the “same prin ciple on which we justify legiti mate self-defense and just war ware must be applied to vio lence after it represents black response to white violence.” . Black people, they added, “are fully aware that violence has been consciously and pur posely used by America from its fight for independence to its maintenance of white su premacy. Black people are en couraged to fight abroad for White America’s freedom and liberty.” , WORSHIP E 1 j: Dine at ! s c ! HERLOCHER’S 1 Oof i p 11 On Sunday ■ ju 9:00 A.M. -6:15 P.M. Wednesday 7:30 P.M. < j . Block Sale April 24 (Min. Order of 20) General Sale April 25 Ground Floor HUB WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate subcommittee is investi gating a report that the CIA once removed Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Viet nam as commanding officer of a secret sabotage operations because he used it as a front for opium smuggling. The report was made avail able to the Associated Press by the Senate subcommittee on foreign aid expenditures, head ed by Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska. Joseph Lippman, staff direc tor of the subcommittee, said the report was considered high ly reliable, but refused per mission to name or in any way identify its source. The 1963-64 sabotage opera tion, called Operation Haylift, “was flying Vietnam agents into North Vietnam for the pur pose of sabotage such as blow ing up railroads and bridges,” the report said. “When the program first be gan, the CIA engaged Vietnam air crews and their command ing officer was Col. Nguyen Ky who is now vice president of Romney May Be Yesterday's developments on the political scene: Gov. George Romney of Michigan attended a Washing ton meeting called by Republi cans who want Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller to enter the party’s presidential nominating race. The consensus: the New York er must enter soon and pledge to stay in to the end. Romney, a former candidate, said he is uncommitted but interested. Rockefeller spoke in Washing ton before the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors in the first of a series of major speeches on national issues, urging a 10-year, $l5O-billion at tack on urban ills. ist' Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy continued his campaigning in Indiana for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Minnesotan needled his only active party rival, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on reports that at least one person on the Senate payroll is active in the New Proudly Presents SlMOMaitid GAHFBNKEL An FMK Production Senate Studies CIA-Ky Report Rec Hall $ 2.50 FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968 South Vietnam. "To make a long story short, Col. Ky tck advantage of this situation to fly opium from Laos to Saigon. Of course the CIA removed Col. Ky and his flight crew and they were re placed by Chinese Air Force pilots from Formosa. Also, tne Vietnam ground crew was re placed by Chinese mechanics.” The missions were flown from Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Air Base, the report said. At least one of the aircraft used, a C 123, belonged to the U.S. Air Force, it said. Ky 37, was named by the Ngo Dinh Diem government in 1956' as commander of Saigon Air port. A month after Diem was overthrown and killed in 1963, Kv was named commander of the rapidly growing Vietnam ese Air Force. He retained thai command until 1965 when he became pre mier of his countrv, succeeding a civilian, Pham Huy Quat. Last September, Ky was elected vice piesident on a ticket with President Nguyen Van Thieu. Quiet, But interested Yorker's Indiana campaign. New York Sen. Robert Ken nedy campaigned in Oregon and in a Portland speech seemed to be shifting his ap peal more to adult groups after weeks of accenting the ap proach to youth. Mrs. Sargent Shriver, his sister, told report ers their mother, Rose Ken nedy, will appear for her son in Indiana prior ti the May 7 primary. She added Mrs. John F. Kennedy also may appear but wouldn’t call it a proba bility. Former Vice President Rich- M. Nixon, the only active major candidate for his party’s nomi nation, will end several days of public inactivity to speak today to the editors’ society in Wash ington. Rockefeller was given a 2-1 preference edge over Nixon among Pennsylvania candi dates for election as GOP con vention delegates who replied to an AF poll. Of 97 polled, 59 replied.
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