19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com

Sister Kate's "Black Bottom"?

Sister Kate's "Black Bottom"? A Five-Minute Dance Performance Raises Temperatures and Questionsby Brendan KileyThere's no real consensus about where the "black bottom" started: New Orleans, Nashville, and Detroit have all laid claim to the jazz dance. Musician and dancer Perry Bradford said he invented it in the early 1900s, based on a dance affiliated with "rounders" (pimps) in Jacksonville, Florida. Some say its fundamental gestures—two-footed slides, shaking the hips, slapping the body&
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