DALLAS — No matter your age or generation, you have probably experienced a popular dance craze. Regardless of era, history has shown that when the right moves get big enough, they are too much to ...
Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor was a "Soul Train" dancer who popularized a style known as waacking. (From Debra and Archie Burnett) Tyrone Proctor grew up in Philadelphia dancing with cousins in his aunt’s ...
As popular music was exploding in the 1970s and new genres were bubbling up along with new bands to match the public's love affair with the radio and vinyl, there were also a number of singular ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Playlist During this fertile period the way revelers received dance music — and what was considered dance music — shifted as new kinds of spaces ...
Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...