The Changing of the 'Garde and more rambling.

[Malignd]

<<You got me on that one.  Hambone?>>

>From an article on tap (dancing):

"... however, laws were created preventing slaves from
using drums. Without drums, slaves found ways to make
rhythms with tambourines, bones, and "patting Juba,"
which was the use of the body as an instrument by hand
clapping and body and thigh slapping (essentially,
making the body a drum). Today this is called
"hambone." 

<<You can understand how the use of avant-garde lends
a certain economy to the communication here, no?>>




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