TheMetalDog, to random
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The Hobbit - 1977 - Animated film by Topcraft Studio (pre-Studio Ghibli) based on JRR Tolkien's 1937 novel (movie-web.app)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."...

cybeardjm, to jazz

Found this via AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (as AfricanArchives on ​:birdsite:​)

Did a post on Lindy Hop and Hellzapoppin some time ago on my blog https://www.didiermary.fr/swing-lindy-hop-hellzapoppin/ but there's a lot more info here...

-History Of The Lindy Hop Dance-

On May 21st 1927 the Lindy Hop dance was publicly introduced to the world. The Lindy hop is an African American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City.

On that date, the Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis airplane completed the first transatlantic flight by air, the Newspaper reported “Lindy Hops the Atlantic” and the dance style adopted the headline. The dance has evolved since then with the jazz music of that time and was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston.

It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family. In its development, the Lindy hop combined elements of both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of African dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's basic step, the swing-out. In this step's open position, dancers generally connected hand-to-hand; in its closed position, leads and follows are connected as though in an embrace on one side and holding hands on the other.

Lindy hop is sometimes referred to as a street dance, referring to its improvisational and social nature. On March 27, 1932, twelve-year-old Norma Miller did the Lindy hop outside the Savoy Ballroom with her friends for tips. In 1935, 15,000 people danced on Bradhurst Avenue for the second of a dance series held by the Parks Department. Between 147th and 148th street, Harlem "threw itself into the Lindy hop with abandon" as Sugar Hill residents watched from the bluffs along Edgecombe Avenue. There was renewed interest in the dance in the 1980s from American, Swedish, and British dancers and the Lindy hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass-roots organizations globally.

Colorized scene from Hellzapoppin' (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7vY9VTnk

Colorized scene from A Day at the Races with the Marx Brothers (1937)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egopcBsOPIU

ArtBear, to music

This became a big varied musical mix, & suggestions thread. Loads of music discussion, cool tracks and playlists. Feel free to join in.😀

All kinds of genres & periods, just released or any decade.

Check out effortlessly cool French rapper McSolaar well ahead of his time in the 90s.

Thread Youtube playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSjf2LsBixj_y6Q7vRz9rG_m0PILEpuW

McSolaar - Nouveau Western

Thread expanded Spotify playlist - extras etc
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Cfnw4ZRUGfr86nPRbdJX5?si=c6e13eed9f7045d7

ArtBear,

1937 one of Billie Holiday's sadder songs.
2013 handbraketurned in a tingly electro house direction with a blistering stereo mix. Headphones or plant yourself between your speakers recommended.
Very much it's own thing.

Toro Y Moi Billie Holiday - My Man

https://youtu.be/0G5B2x0_RFE

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