Those Were the Days
RE-1914, apparently, according to Harry Davidson and his Orchestra and the BBC, dancing really was dancing; nowadays, according to any swing fan of your acquaintance, you will discover that it is hep, jive, rug-cutting, boogie-woogie-or have I got it all wrong? But the enthusiast of the good-old-days who tries to convince the younger generation that dancing in his | day was stately, sober, dignified, is going
to have a hard job. What about the Kitchen Lancers, which young ladies were forbidden to dance because it was "wild and unseemly"? What about the waltz some years earlier, regarded by all except the most progressive as "scandalously improper’’? It is certainly a little hard to imagine at the moment, but the time cannot be far off when the most outrageous antics of the jitter-bug artist will provoke comment solely because they are stuffy and old-fashioned. The one point on which I am not yet clear is, does the dancing follow the trend of | Popular music or do the dancers call the tune? But on second thoughts probably the answer is neither; like Topsy, they both just growed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 18
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188Those Were the Days New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 18
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