Talk:Jitterbug

message: Good info. Can anyone add stuff about the jitterbug elsewhere in the world ?.Johncmullen1960 08:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  elsewhere 

message: I wouldn't mind it if someone would liberally crop the See Also list of this page.  It's a bit excessive and not really helpful (e.g. would I really want to click on  Groucho after searching for Jitterbug?)  Personally, I don't feel like any of the dance moves really belong in this list.  I'll  be bold sometime soon unless someone has objections.  --Will.i.am 08:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See Also List

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
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thread_title: Survey

message: "During the early 1900s, the term became associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance." The phrase "early 1900s" is pretty vague. Although there were proto swing dances, swing didn't get big until the late 20s into the 30s. Surely, we don't want people to think the term was used to fefer to dancers to, for instance, ragtime, or the Charleston? I would prefer definate years, or at least what part of a decade to avoid confusion. My inclusion of the Cab Calloway song and film are examples. Comments? Steve Pastor 18:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there should be a more definitive time range but in the interview Al Minns didn't say exactly when it was used that way.  I would assume that he meant at the time Lindy Hop was very popular in the 1930s-1940s.  (For added perspective, Al Minns was 10 years old in 1930.)  If you'd like to clarify that Jitterbug was first used after Lindy Hop became a popular dance, then that would make it clear that someone dancing one of the earlier dances is not jitterbugging. panda 18:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: early 1900s

message: IMDB has a date of 1935, as do some other sources, for Party. Meanwhile these sources with edu extensions  have a date of 1934. I lean towards using the edu reference dates of 1934.
:Regarding who did the "They look like" quote, in a 1997 Norma Miller and Frankie Manning interview, Norma associates it with Benny Goodman who didn't play the Paramont until 1936. 
 , but states that is the way she got it, so she didn't hear it herself. Steve Pastor 16:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the video, Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party is copyright MCMXXXV, which would make it 1935. panda 12:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

text: BTW, you can see the video of Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party in The Best of Jazz & Blues, published by Kino International. panda 19:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Calloway's Jitterbug Party and the Jitterbugs quote

message: A few years ago, a 33-cent U.S. postage stamp commemorated the jitterbug. Probably worth a mention somewhere. (Are images of stamps "fair use"? Can someone find a link to one?) Typofixer76 (talk) 16:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA postage stamp 

message: In Herräng, during one of his talks at the Föreningen Folkets Hus, Frankie Manning mentioned that there was no such dance as the Jitterbug. I do not have a source for the citation, aside from being present when he said it. His words, however, are supported by Al Minns, who was asked about the definition in the following video (2:50):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6DlmqOWBlg
Interviewer: "Tell me, what what's the jitterbug?"
Al Minns: "... we called people who just jump on the floor without any knowledge of what they were doing and go mad with the drums and what not ... and shakin' their heads and ... jumpin' up and down without any control ... are what we call jitterbugs."
Another source: http://www.swingdynamite.com/jitterbug
Historically, Lindy Hop was renamed as the Jitterbug Jive (or "Jitterbug"). It would later share this same name with a later related dance, but the reason why the Lindy Hop was renamed is related to its namesake: Charles Lindbergh. Lindburgh had a supposedly outspoken pro-nazi stance, which caused his name to be an unsavory object. In time, the term "Lindy Hop" would almost be forgotten about.
Source: http://history.just-the-swing.com/swing-history/lindy-hop
Thangalin (talk) 07:23, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Such Dance 

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message: "Dancing was not a popular pastime in Britain before the war, and many ballrooms had been closed for lack of business". Are you kidding? Who here can say such a thing without supporting sources? Well, I have a source, and it says no such thing: Cascani, Elizabeth 1994. Oh, how we danced!. Mercat Press. ISBN 1-873-29-9. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:03, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before the war... 

message: According to Gerhard Kubik, 2009, Africa and the Blues, this page "jitterbug" is an alternative name for diddley bow. Could perhaps be mentioned? Episcophagus (talk) 09:59, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: History is nothing without dates. What happened before 1944?
100.15.117.34 (talk) 17:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  history