Re: [FairfieldLife] World Boogie-Woogie Championship, 2012

[Richard Williams]

Around here this dance style is called "Fast Western", "Fast Texas", or
sometimes "hillbilly" dancing", "swing" dancing or just "rock n' roll"
dancing. It follows a six beat pattern according to our dance instructor.
The name "boogie-woogie", according to Dr. John Tennison, a famous
musicologist and pianist here in San Antonio, has suggested an African
origin for the name. Go figure.

An early example of this style of playing is Led Belly, who grew up in
Harrison County, in the community of Leigh, up in the Caddo Lake Area of
northeast Texas. Boogie-woogie was made famous by Jelly Roll Morton. The
origin of boogie- woogie music and dancing is Texas, which was first played
up in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas.

But, the most primitive boogie-woogie music and dancing is associated with
Marshall, Texas and that a left-handed bass lines grew and became more
complex as the distance from Marshall increased. 'Asleep At The Wheel',
based in Austin, plays good music; and a good example of modern
boogie-woogie is Canned Heat:

Going Up The Country - 1968 from the album "Living the Blues"
http://youtu.be/p0PjECSyJ7w

Other examples:

Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
http://youtu.be/F9QpDvhshOQ

Route 66 - Asleep At The Wheel
http://youtu.be/vifUaZQL8pc

Work cited:

'BOOGIE WOOGIE'
Its Origin, Subsequent History, and Continuing Development
by John Tennison
http://www.bowofo.org/

Read more:

'The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God'
by Peter Silvester
Scarecrow Press, 2009

'Living the Blues: Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and
Survival'
by Canned Heat
Canned Heat Music, 2000


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:33 PM,  wrote:

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[FairfieldLife] World Boogie-Woogie Championship, 2012

[authfriend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-77vZ4_SU&feature=youtu.be 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-77vZ4_SU&feature=youtu.be 
 

 Exhilarating. I can do without all the acrobatics. I just love to watch the 
legs and feet, and the centrifugal interaction (I made that phrase up; don't 
know how else to describe it) between the two dancers.