Jacqueline Soulchick exactly

What African Americans created, we created while under oppression and we created within our own culture for our own people. These dancers are modern dancers and they don’t state where they got there skills. Naturally we have some things in common. Haters need to enjoy and shut up!

@@doortech2004 dancehistorygumbootdancing.weebly.com/narrative.html Here's the history on gumboot dancing.

@@doortech2004 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_dance For more information

Yes, but gumboots were invented and made in Europe and so gumboot dancing was invented in Europe first by your flimsy logical standards.

God seën jou

here here...yes I teach in my dance history lessons that American stepping is the offspring of the African Gumboot dancing just like American Jazz and hiphop dance are offspring of African dance...The African stuff came first! :)

+Richard Lawson ...I feel like there's still quite a lot of white people in Zimbabwe. And it did originate in SA, but it's pretty popular in Zimbabwe as well

+Mako Muzenda it's south African end of story

I'm not disagreeing with you, it did originate in SA. I'm just saying it's popular in Zimbabwe as well

As an African American community folklorist who is a (long inactive) member of a historically Black Greek sorority, I'm interested in learning about the history of stepping and how it relates to South African isicathulo (gumboot dancing). I've learned that -in spite of it being a widely held belief (among people who teach or read about these subjects), and in spite of their close performance similarities, South African gumboot dancing isn't actually the source of (or the only source of) stepping. In fact, it may be that gumboot dancing was originally influenced by tap dancing and/or other footwork that was performed in South African in the 19th century by Black performers and White performers in American minstrel shows which were held in South Africa. quoted in [my cultural blog] pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-origins-of-south-african-gumboot.html From South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation, Volume 1 by Carol Ann Muller (Google book), p. 161, and 163 (162 isn't available in the Google Book version). "Carol Ann Muller writes that gumboot dancing (South African term isicathulo) first began in the Christian missions that were established for Black South Africans. The gumboot dancing in the mines is a significant development of that dance but not the only form of that dance. Here are some quotes from that book: "Isicathulo means shoe, boot, or sandal; it also refers to the boot dance performed by young boys since the first contact with Europeans. It is defined as “a modern rhythmic dance adopted by certain Christian natives, in which dancing is both individual and in groups. (Cockrell 1987, 422).... p. 163 "The other cultural influence that shaped gumboot dancing was the minstrel shows, performed in Durban by American and English troupes beginning in the nineteenth century. Jonney Hadebe, one of the members of Blanket Mkhize's gumboot team explains the early history of gumboot dance in a program note written for the South African Railway's gumboot dancers: In 1896, subsequent to watching white men tap dancing and clapping their hands, the amaBaca* decided to make a dance of their own. They called it the gumboot dance. The dance was a rhythmically performed act of dancing, clapping hands, and slapping the calve muscles-the calf muscles being protected by rubber gumboots. In the year 1896, the group consisted of eight members, six dancers, and two playing musical instruments. In those days the soles of the gumboots were cut off and the dancers wore shoes.... I have been a gumboot dancer for the past twenty-three years. (Jonny Hadebe, ca. 1978) Also, [among other reading on this subject], click www.howard.edu/library/reference/bob_edgar_site/maintext.html African American Historical Linkages With South Africa, ca 1890-1965: "In the arts African Americans made notable contributions to South African African music. Between 1890 and 1898, Orpheus McAdoo's Jubilee Singers spent five years on three separate trips touring South Africa. These troupe's performances of spirituals, folk songs, minstrel shows and dances left an indelible impression on African choirs, social clubs, and music styles as well as independent church leaders"...

These song says in English..... I miss my parents, my Father and My mother... Haaaaaa aaah haaaa my Parents,,,,, is been couple of years not seeing them,,,,,,, I miss them

Technically the Dance was made for the mine workers but God seën jou

I no right Zulu is south Africa ppl are just jealous

+Ntomby pk Where on EARTH did you get an idea like that?!

Abazali bami (My parents)

+amie kallon abazali bam

i wish the video was that song all the way

Ooow yes coz back in the early 1900s black South African miners thought "ooow shit let's steal from Fraternities across the globe"

Where do you think strolling and stepping came from? It originated from Africa lol