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Tap History
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Dancing History
Jazz dance played a major role in tap development. Tap dancers
have used rhythms from blues, ragtime, swing, and big band music. Count Basie,
Neal Hefti, and Jimmie Lunceford, all have a great influence on the origination
of tap. They have created songs such a "cute", "For Dancers
Only", and "Doin' the New Down Low" for the tap world. Duke Ellington
had contributed pieces of tap music, such as "Bojangles" to the
people.
Many of the famous tap dancers are famous
because of one thing, rhythm. Tap is all about stomping to the beat.
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