old time dancing

great film from 50"s

[@pattimorris6200]

Absolutely wonderful. I love the spirit of the people..

[@TheRm65]

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.

[@lewisfrazier3506]

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-rt7hl]

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]

i jus love this video so damn much feels like home for some reason n im not eem from the south

[@namesake-mx9nl]

thank goodness somebody recorded this , thanks for sharing it with us.

[@violetnewcomb1195]

Awesome ,they having fun ,anything is dancing if you keepthebeat aith themusic funfun!!

[@CryptoX-kr3wu]

The true origins of the crip walk. 😂

[@alicehallam7949]

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.

[@princeoftroy6137]

You mean they weren’t slaves? Go figure.

[@tylersheppard9601]

Lol it wasn't a slave thing lol.Pretty sure Germans were poor and immigrants just like working class southerners

[@Naltddesha]

@@princeoftroy6137 aww 😢

[@dawnfoltz3856]

Wonderful that we have this recorded.

[@patstilwell1559]

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]

buck dancing/pattin juba comes from upper west Africa.

[@patstilwell1559]

@@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]

@@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]

@@patstilwell1559 also when u say “working inna fields” do u mean as overseers 🤔

[@patstilwell1559]

@@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.

[@otpkd]

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.

[@nobodynoone2500]

Except skiffle was invented in the 50s by white guys and the term retroactively applied.

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

@@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?

[@tammyandersonparker3068]

Fabbbbbuuuloouuusss!👍🏾👍🏽👍🏿😍🌠

[@lewisfrazier3506]

Can't forget that music!!!

[@francesdenyer3171]

It seems to me this is where buck dancing started

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

Buck dancing originated in the Scottish and Irish Jig. The slaves saw it and did their own version.

[@straightup654]

@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 source

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

@@straightup654 Look up the Irish jig.

[@charlesmckay858]

Sounds about right, Africans had their own dances that looked nothing like this. Probably from the Irish slave masters.

[@azizip171]

​@@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 KZbin video of Zaouli dancing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIuYaGWvga1sqcU

[@lucy0537]

Awesome!!❤

[@denysemohan5705]

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.

[@belindamehlman1448]

Thank you 🙏

[@bluegrasshack3810]

5/22/23: Thanks, Cuz! Priceless record of the past right here on my phone! Miss y’all! 🎻🪕❤️

[@christopherlawless713]

All I'm going to say is I smell butter biscuits.

[@bluegrasshack3810]

And Memaw’s homemade pear preserves! Oh man!

[@MatthewOlwell]

Would love to know more backstory. When and where was this filmed? By who?

[@philipdurling1964]

Buck dancing still alive and kicking today.

[@frankie12string]

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?!?!

[@alicehallam7949]

Scott Dunbar?

[@frankie12string]

@@alicehallam7949 yep. Scott Dunbar: kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_l1JPqO60kVGOIy2v0FxxgPgCPqfcLAwzU

[@alicehallam7949]

@@frankie12string "Born 1904 south of Natchez. Made a guitar out of a cigar box and a broomstick." Thanks.

[@bluegrasshack3810]

@@alicehallam7949 5/22/23: And Joni Bishop (Nashville) still makes cigar box and other homemade instruments to perform with and sell.

[@SDTalentHunter]

My mom made me learn tap dancing and I hated it. Boy do I wish I stuck with it now!

[@patstilwell1559]

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.

[@JudgeSturdy]

Buddy, Who made this?

[@Fortnite-ok6vz]

lol put the song proleter april showers

[@joannehack7588]

😁

[@joannehack7588]

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[@joannehack7588]

This footage is incredible!!!

[@Abrock730]

:12 sec Was she smoking a L?

[@kochilired]

She smoking rolled tobacco cigs. Back then

[@honeybutterworth5419]

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]

We were stronger when we where 90% white. That's changing very quickly and so is our strength. We are diminishing in every way.

[@christopherlawless713]

Is that Jessie Lee Peterson I see? 👀

[@dominiqueslifehacks]

Makes me sad - that African Americans had to make something out of nothing, all the time, for so long.

[@gabormihaly667]

which part of Africa is this?

[@kittylogan9006]

idiot

[@nolacking1007]

I think its the mississippi or it could be on the eastern african sea border called maryland 🤷‍♂️ it gets confusing sometime😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤔😜

[@brianbook3797]

Kenya

[@gabormihaly667]

@@brianbook3797 Ó! Right! Thanx!

[@brianbook3797]

@@gabormihaly667 You're welcome Gabor.

[@HowDoYouVideos]

Where in Africa is that

[@brianbook3797]

Kenya

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

the United States of Black America