I must've been in my teens when this was filmed, makes me feel as old as the dust that flew up from their dancing. Hard times, hard times.
@lewisfrazier35063 жыл бұрын
My daddy grew up in the 1930's &40's the stories he told, kids today wouldn't believe it... poor as Joe's turkey
@Ronaldo-rt7hl2 жыл бұрын
what are these dances called I want to find out more about them and share them. It sounded like skippling, step dancing, and buck dancing?
@bean4423 Жыл бұрын
i jus love this video so damn much feels like home for some reason n im not eem from the south
@pattimorris62003 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful. I love the spirit of the people..
@otpkd2 жыл бұрын
Skiffle! That's when I first learned about all the traditional songs, thanks to Lonnie Donegan and many others. Great tradition. You can see where jive and everything that followed comes from.
@nobodynoone25002 жыл бұрын
Except skiffle was invented in the 50s by white guys and the term retroactively applied.
@Ronaldo-rt7hl2 жыл бұрын
@@nobodynoone2500 everytime i looke of jive dancing it only gives white people dancing swing. Is Skiffle a white dance and Jive a black dance or were they both white?
@violetnewcomb11953 жыл бұрын
Awesome ,they having fun ,anything is dancing if you keepthebeat aith themusic funfun!!
@namesake-mx9nl3 жыл бұрын
thank goodness somebody recorded this , thanks for sharing it with us.
@alicehallam79493 жыл бұрын
My grandfather entertained us as children by dancing like this. He grew up in a German neighborhood small town in Illinois, was of English descent, white, and they were not agricultural workers. Go figure.
@princeoftroy61372 жыл бұрын
You mean they weren’t slaves? Go figure.
@tylersheppard96012 жыл бұрын
Lol it wasn't a slave thing lol.Pretty sure Germans were poor and immigrants just like working class southerners
@Naltddesha Жыл бұрын
@@princeoftroy6137 aww 😢
@CryptoX-kr3wu Жыл бұрын
The true origins of the crip walk. 😂
@dawnfoltz38563 жыл бұрын
Wonderful that we have this recorded.
@patstilwell15592 жыл бұрын
Buck dancing, Clogging and flatfooting was brought over to TN, VA, NC & Ky by our ancestors from the Scottish-Irish in the 1700s. Our Ancestors would dance this and the Slaves pick up on it and they danced too as the music played from the Big house. Old Time Bluegrass came over with the dancing. I am glad to see the African Americans dancing to this too. Music makes everyone smile. I am not a racist either. I love my African American friends.
@bean4423 Жыл бұрын
buck dancing/pattin juba comes from upper west Africa.
@patstilwell1559 Жыл бұрын
@@bean4423 No, buck dancing, clogging and flatfooting came from Scotland and Ireland!! Some steps came from England too. Yes, my ancestors were from all three of these places and the history was passed down to us.. Look It up! My great Grandparents came from Ireland as well as my great Grandparents came from Scotland. I am 73 years old and my grandmother told me what was passed down to her. My father had an old Time band in Southwest VA. His great Grandfather taught him and his brothers to play the music Old Time Band as well as my great grandmother from Ireland taught me as a little girl to clog, flat foot dancing and Buck dancing. This is what they would do on their porches after a long day of working in the fields. The slaves would watch them and learned how to dance for their entertainment just like the slave owners would dance. Our great southern cooking came from the Slaves. So I know the history well from those who came over from Ireland and Scotland. My grandmother came over from Scotland and my grandfather from Ireland. They both knew how to dance and granddaddy knew how to play the music of the Old Time Music. This is why it is called Old Time music. It came over here in the 1700s from Scotland and Ireland.
@bean4423 Жыл бұрын
@@patstilwell1559 the way irish/scottish did it n the way African slaves did it was 2 diff things. buck dancing involves more improv, pantamiming, playfulness, syncopation, full body expression etc which is a more African expression a footwork-heavy dances. it’s several dances across the sahel that look jus like this. also if it supposedly came from the irish y is it a hatian dance called djouba that involves that same kinda footwork 🤔. how many Irish/Scottish ppl was in haiti like that ?? does “Juba” even sound like a irish word to u ?? like be serious…
@bean4423 Жыл бұрын
@@patstilwell1559 also when u say “working inna fields” do u mean as overseers 🤔
@patstilwell1559 Жыл бұрын
@@bean4423 I am not going to argue with you. I know what has been passed down to us and it was our ancestors bringing it over from our ancestors. My great grandparents brought it over from Ireland and Scotland. I know what I am talking about. The slaves watched their masters do this dance and they picked up on it. Clogging, Buck dancing and flatfoot dancing was here before a lot of slaves came to America.
@bluegrasshack3810 Жыл бұрын
5/22/23: Thanks, Cuz! Priceless record of the past right here on my phone! Miss y’all! 🎻🪕❤️
@tammyandersonparker30683 жыл бұрын
Fabbbbbuuuloouuusss!👍🏾👍🏽👍🏿😍🌠
@francesdenyer31713 жыл бұрын
It seems to me this is where buck dancing started
@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 Жыл бұрын
Buck dancing originated in the Scottish and Irish Jig. The slaves saw it and did their own version.
@straightup654 Жыл бұрын
@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 source
@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 Жыл бұрын
@@straightup654 Look up the Irish jig.
@charlesmckay858 Жыл бұрын
Sounds about right, Africans had their own dances that looked nothing like this. Probably from the Irish slave masters.
@azizip17111 ай бұрын
@@charlesmckay858, the Zaouli dance from the Ivory Coast , West Africa is an example of traditional African footwork dances that are precursors (along with Scottish & Irish Jigs) of African American buck dancing & tap dancing. The Zaouli dance is also a precursor of African American buck jumping (that is still performed by New Orleans Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs & second line dancers), stepping (that is still performed by historically Black Greek letter fraternities & sororities), foot stomping cheers, and contemporary African American footwork social dances (such as Crip Walk "C-Walk"). Here's a link a KZfaq video of Zaouli dancing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMBlapWqsa6do5c.html
@denysemohan57052 жыл бұрын
I'm amazed by people, who want to keep themselves in the land of foolish, by asking stupid questions 🙄 . Amazing clip, of a bygone time. Wonderful that it was recorded.
@lewisfrazier35063 жыл бұрын
Can't forget that music!!!
@philipdurling1964 Жыл бұрын
Buck dancing still alive and kicking today.
@belindamehlman14483 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@christopherlawless7132 жыл бұрын
All I'm going to say is I smell butter biscuits.
@bluegrasshack3810 Жыл бұрын
And Memaw’s homemade pear preserves! Oh man!
@MatthewOlwell9 жыл бұрын
Would love to know more backstory. When and where was this filmed? By who?
@lucy0537 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!!❤
@frankie12string9 жыл бұрын
This was almost certainly filmed by Frederic Ramsey as part of his field trip that resulted in his book "Been Here And Gone." At one point, there was some footage on youtube of Scott Dunbar that was probably also from this film... where is the REST of it and WHAT is the title?!?!
@alicehallam79493 жыл бұрын
Scott Dunbar?
@frankie12string3 жыл бұрын
@@alicehallam7949 yep. Scott Dunbar: kzfaq.info/sun/OLAK5uy_l1JPqO60kVGOIy2v0FxxgPgCPqfcLAwzU
@alicehallam79493 жыл бұрын
@@frankie12string "Born 1904 south of Natchez. Made a guitar out of a cigar box and a broomstick." Thanks.
@bluegrasshack3810 Жыл бұрын
@@alicehallam7949 5/22/23: And Joni Bishop (Nashville) still makes cigar box and other homemade instruments to perform with and sell.
@SDTalentHunter3 жыл бұрын
My mom made me learn tap dancing and I hated it. Boy do I wish I stuck with it now!
@patstilwell15592 жыл бұрын
Tap dancing and Buck dancing, clogging and flatfooting were different and to different music. You can still learn to clog, because you have had tap dancing. But the steps are really different. Go to some Old bluegrass Festivals and you will learn how by watch some. But you really need to find someone to teach you the timing.
@joannehack7588 Жыл бұрын
😁
@joannehack7588 Жыл бұрын
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@joannehack7588 Жыл бұрын
This footage is incredible!!!
@JudgeSturdy9 жыл бұрын
Buddy, Who made this?
@honeybutterworth54193 жыл бұрын
This is in the good old u.s.a,you can call it African Arabic jewish anything you want it's all in the pot melting,we have it alllllllll.and that is what makes us so strong.
@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 Жыл бұрын
We were stronger when we where 90% white. That's changing very quickly and so is our strength. We are diminishing in every way.
@Fortnite-ok6vz5 жыл бұрын
lol put the song proleter april showers
@Abrock7303 жыл бұрын
:12 sec Was she smoking a L?
@kochilired2 жыл бұрын
She smoking rolled tobacco cigs. Back then
@dominiqueslifehacks Жыл бұрын
Makes me sad - that African Americans had to make something out of nothing, all the time, for so long.
@christopherlawless7132 жыл бұрын
Is that Jessie Lee Peterson I see? 👀
@gabormihaly6673 жыл бұрын
which part of Africa is this?
@kittylogan90063 жыл бұрын
idiot
@nolacking10073 жыл бұрын
I think its the mississippi or it could be on the eastern african sea border called maryland 🤷♂️ it gets confusing sometime😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤔😜