An Authentic Cake Walk

[@OSRSDeep]

If only we could see the marvelous colors displayed on their hats

[@sioneliuelifonua3582]

Sent hereby Kendrick Lamar’s music video to “they not like us”

[@miralekic]

Same!

[@kovallane]

💯

[@parkermudsen1063]

Me too

[@MyTy1978]

Me too !!!

[@MG-lq8hx]

Yes!

[@JohnRemmers]

That's a wonderful clip. I've seen this movie several times. If memory serves, the earthquake begins later in this scene and profoundly changes the mood of the film. I was particularly taken with the poignant way in which music is used to reflect this.

[@jrexx2841]

1936 portraying 1906 wow

[@louisxiv631]

Oh, my goodness...this was only a few hours before that dreadful earthquake devastated the city of San Francisco. The earthquake struck in the early hours of the 18th and this "Chicken's Ball" is taking place on the evening of the 17th. Chilling!

[@adamgswanson]

Undoubtedly, they made the movie that way on purpose. The classic film revolves around the great earthquake of 1906.

[@louisxiv631]

@@adamgswanson Oh, my word. I didn't know that, I've never seen the film before! Pardon me, I feel rather embarrassed now; My comment seems quite ignorant now that I look at it! Thank you for your patience in replying to my comment, I'll be more mindful of movie plots in future. Thanks.

[@adamgswanson]

@@louisxiv631 Also, they did not have sound film in 1906 haha.

[@michaelangelojurado3384]

Signore Louis, how ever did you stumble across this video. I would hardly expect a man of your class and stature to take pleasure in rag time. Caspita! If you ever find yourself travelling in the Sicilian countryside just south of il Parco dell'Etna please stop by my club so that you may delight me with an explanation. Io vi raccomando!

[@slantdwave]

​@@michaelangelojurado3384 Get ahold of yourself, man

[@nicolearciola3598]

First song is Smoky Mokes, followed A Georgia Camp Meeting.

[@pdetestable]

Thank you!!!

[@0276boy]

Fantastic. This got me into ragtime before I knew what ragtime is. Fabulous. The dancing is perfect.

[@samaval9920]

Earliest published ragtime before the name is Danses cubaines (Bailes/ Danzas Cubanas, by U S 19 c. composer & pianist. superstar Louis Moreau Gottschalk-- ragtime ahead of time.

[@Lootroq]

As a black person, I can guarantee you there was a way more savage version for when white folks weren't around. I wonder what that looked like

[@catherinecrawford2289]

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[@ikiruyamamoto1050]

As you weren't alive at the time, I don't think you can "guarantee" anything.

[@naomiomi4503]

Me too I want to see that

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

It’s called an orgy

[@glorygracek.1841]

It involved a lot more high stepping kicks and fast footwork.

[@rooneyjosuehernandezvillan4213]

Excuse me folks. What’s the name of the movie?

[@mainequeen]

San Francisco

[@georgetheaspie]

I know the cakewalk is considered contentious nowadays, but this just looks like a fun dance done by very talented performers.

[@thomashogan16]

Contentious? How? Damn politically correct anything that applies to art. Period.

[@LA-tz8zr]

@@thomashogan16 There's a LOT of art modern and historical that was made with politics, activism, rebellion, etc. in mind. However you may feel about current commentary on the cake walk dance, it was originally made as an act of rebellion against slaveowners and popularized by the very same people who were being made fun of. It wasn't JUST a "pretty dance".

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

@@LA-tz8zr i guess art doesn't know boundary lol

[@nadiaelisian7335]

Watching "Meet me in St. Louis" sent me here because it's hard not to have 2 screens going at once.

[@miask]

I did the same!

[@vicentegarcia6298]

El cakewalk es el antecesor directo del ragtime. Conoces otros cakewalks? Saludos cordiales desde la ciudad de México.

[@samaval9920]

El ragtime fue una influencia grande en el Brasil,,espcialmente oara la gran compositora Francisca Chiquinha Gonzaga.!

[@samaval9920]

El ragtime primer publicado e Danses cubaines (Bailes? Cubanas.)!1849!! Ragtime sin el nombre.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

Reading Johnson's Autobiogrphy of an Ex-Colored Man sent me to this. Great read

[@cwjmkj]

Same here...

[@Datz-Donna]

More people need to read it. It breaks down how the white society still judge all of us Black folks by their hatred of the under achievers who look like us even today.

[@CP-tq7id]

Omg yes I’m reading it now. So great

[@reginamerwin935]

Me too! What a great book!

[@puredust5797]

Ex colored? He identifies as white now?

[@arturolpc3593]

'At a Georgia Camp Meeting Cakewalk.' Cakewalk De Kerry Mills publicada por F.A. Mills en New York, New York en 1897.

[@prairiedoggy1]

San Francisco, great movie!

[@guyveloz4382]

Gawd, Jeanette McDonald was soooooo beautiful.

[@simzou4373]

Good Very Easy dance~ Cakewalk

[@rockyhernandez1284]

Sent here by reading James by Percival Everett

[@shawnlongino1154]

That would be Harold Nicholas jumping through the hoop to lead the dance.

[@HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx]

Yes, that's exactly what happened

[@8ALICAT]

Does anyone know the name of this movie?

[@Secularrymair]

It's called San Francisco 1936

[@Sandflea999]

Rymair gaming and reviews I believe “Taxi”, 1932.

[@tonytony1560]

your not going to believe this but the name of the movie is in the description

[@gaurangmaheshwari2224]

@@tonytony1560 lol

[@johnerwin9024]

Yea, too long since watch movie, overall, really pretty good, thanks 4 this clip from it🙂

[@HB-yq8gy]

Wow we went from classy cake walk to twerking. Our ancestors are rolling over in their graves 😂

[@Gabriellaella23]

Our ancestors moved their hips and bottoms while dancing long before we were stolen from Africa. This dance is actually mocking white enslavers.

[@josephjames335]

Ours? With those yt hairy hands? Lmaoo

[@noirekuroraigami2270]

The cake walk was meant to mock white people, and their stupid way of dancing Like most ex slaves said. Who ever could act the most like a white person would get a cake Twerking actually has its origins in African dancing

[@annainspain5176]

The best part is, they hardly show the dance at all.

[@dwdeclare1965]

city mouse in the kitchen, everyone hide the cheese!

[@curtpiazza1688]

Cool! 😂

[@Mimaw1]

The saddest part in all this is society has manipulated black people into modern day entertainers without them even realizing. Whether it’s through theatre like hip hop or sports

[@lorettabigg8513]

I spy one of the Nicholas Brothers.

[@anamariaciurea8263]

Ahahaha ❤️😭🙏

[@jessiewang4201]

who's here because of the LSAT passage

[@septicvortex8114]

Wait explain

[@gavinbkr10]

In white an I find this absolutely amusing

[@alainchristian]

They all in their 20s

[@mightylaser0000]

Once you find out the origins of this dance it’s hilarious lol 😂

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

What is it

[@cosmic_cosmos1]

Why is it hilarious

[@chloefourte3413]

@@IchabodvanTassel98 enslaved folks invented the cakewalk as a game of mocking the slaveowners. Often the slaveowners had no idea they were being mocked, mistakenly thinking the enslaved were simple and trying their best to imitate whites. lol. It's possible some white people knew they were the but of the joke, but it was a subversive act on the part of the enslaved and a bit of fun

[@flex8707]

​@@cosmic_cosmos1 Cakewalk traces back to events on Southern plantations wherein Black slaves would dress up in their finest clothes and parody the mannerisms of their white oppressors. The enslaved people would take turns performing a grand-promenade type of dance - one directly inspired by a specific couple dance called the Grand March performed at American balls. The couple with the best dancing skills would then "take the cake," an idiom that is still common today. But the cakewalk was more than a recreational dance; it also gave a chance for enslaved people to ridicule those who tyrannized them. The dancers would dress up in their finest clothes and parodied the mannerisms and dancing of the white Southern elite. Black slaves mocked the stiff, waltz-style dance moves of their white slave owners. The enslaved black dancers would highly individualize the dance by adding their own twists, shuffles, high kicks, and other incorporated movements from African dances. Their masters often mistook the playful derision for quaint approximations of their dances. While it might be assumed that slave owners would punish their slaves for this mocking behavior, in fact, many owners actually encouraged it. They did a take-off on the high manners of the white folks in the 'big-house,' but their masters, who gathered around to watch the fun, missed the point." Often the white slave owners even assumed the role of presenting the cake instead of the enslaved people choosing among themselves, once again trying to demonstrate their authority.

[@Λεως]

It's basically a parody of classy white ball dance.​@@IchabodvanTassel98

[@mikecarter5631]

I wonder if the white folks, then, knew the cake Walt was meant to make fun of them?

[@TosoFilippo]

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[@Cookie-zv3ni]

How was he passing as white? I have yet to see one picture where I would think he was a white man. Every picture he looks like a black man.

[@SmartStart24]

Who!?

[@Cookie-zv3ni]

@@SmartStart24 this comment was posted on another video. Don’t even ask me how it got here. 🤔

[@Gabriellaella23]

@@Cookie-zv3niI’m still a little curious. Do you remember? 🤔

[@norman102745]

T’ain’t muffin nomo fun dandy cakewoke.

[@user3141592635]

At least, they were not overly fat.

[@thomashogan16]

That would be an extreme difficulty in dancing the Cake Walk.

[@yaboykingr6415]

Kdot wins