Talk:Cakewalk

message: What steps, postures, etc. are involved?  The article fails to say. Dlabtot (talk) 05:17, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does a person perform a cakewalk?   

message: The cakewalk was certainly popular in British music hall at the beginning of the twentieth century, where competititons were held. if anyone has the time and knowledge to add some info about the rest of the world outside the US, that would be great 83.114.243.193 (talk) 12:13, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  rest of world

message: removed "WORST EXAMPLES EVER" from end of article, 'cause that seemed kind of random.
PlainJane 10:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "The dance was invented as a satirical parody of the formal European dances preferred by white slaveowners ..." - seems a bit far fetched to me... Jim whitson 08:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide a good cite from a reliable source to substantiate this. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 11:26, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

text: For a discussion of the satirical origins of the dance, see 'The Cakewalk: A Study in Stereotype and Reality' by Brooke Baldwin, an article in the Journal of Social History (Volume 15, Issue 2, 1981). The Journal of Social History is an academic, peer-reviewed journal. Burninglibrarian (talk) 02:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone have sources for this? 

message: "Academic IT organizations"?  Do you mean "information technology"?  Because that doesn't quite make sense.  And how are "county fairs held by academic ... organizations" different from "school fairs"? SeanWillard 19:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  IT is ambiguous 

message: Although this text by "Joanne Clarke" is appreciated and may be 100% correct, it is not verifiable. A reference to a reliable source would be make this "new section" acceptable. Or perhaps a much shortened addition to "modern times"?Steve Pastor (talk) 14:46, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mid-20th Century

message: The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition, held in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence...: By James D. McCabe., where the "first" chalk line walk / cake walk occurred. 4 instances of the word negro, 0 for chalk, 0 for cake,
See the book at this url. Steve Pastor (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research notes 

message: This article is a very thorough investigation into the history of the cakewalk.  It is probably very accurate.  The problem is, there is absolutely nothing here to help someone who doesn't know what the cakewalk is. 209.189.245.116 (talk) 03:45, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that articles needs an description of what the dance is, except saying that the winning couple got a cake as a prize.  Tuxedo junction (talk) 20:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Probably not a reliable source.  Tuxedo junction (talk) 20:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Has No Actual Explanation 

message: I always thought saying somthing was a cakewalk was to say it was very easy.    I've uploaded a video to u tube on a cakewalk as still performed in New England.    Here people all walk in a circle while others carrying cakes walk in the oppsite direction all in step with a band.    When the band stops the person oppsite the person with the cake wins.     see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYQO_7_oDg
Arydberg (talk) 03:14, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You're most likely correct. I've noted the same thing, above. 2600:4040:4545:1500:68A4:4A99:7D7B:2BBB (talk) 14:49, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another view point 

message: Mark Twain included a paragraph explaining a "Cakewalk" in the opening page of his "In Defense of Harriette Shelly".   Following is the account:
First, as to its literary style. Our negroes in America have several ways of entertaining themselves which are not found among the whites anywhere. Among these inventions of theirs is one which is particularly popular with them. It is a competition in elegant deportment. They hire a hall and bank the spectators' seats in rising tiers along the two sides, leaving all the middle stretch of the floor free. A cake is provided as a prize for the winner in the competition, and a bench of experts in deportment is appointed to award it. Sometimes there are as many as fifty contestants, male and female, and five hundred spectators. One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each considers the perfection of style and taste, and walk down the vacant central space and back again with that multitude of critical eyes on them. All that the competitor knows of fine airs and graces he throws into his carriage, all that he knows of seductive expression he throws into his countenance. He may use all the helps he can devise: watch- chain to twirl with his fingers, cane to do graceful things with, snowy handkerchief to flourish and get artful effects out of, shiny new stovepipe hat to assist in his courtly bows; and the colored lady may have a fan to work up her effects with, and smile over and blush behind, and she may add other helps, according to her judgment. When the review by individual detail is over, a grand review of all the contestants in procession follows, with all the airs and graces and all the bowings and smirkings on exhibition at once, and this enables the bench of experts to make the necessary comparisons and arrive at a verdict. The successful competitor gets the prize which I have before mentioned, and an abundance of applause and envy along with it. The negroes have a name for this grave deportment-tournament; a name taken from the prize contended for. They call it a Cakewalk.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnbh99 (talk • contribs) 01:10, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mark Twain 

message: Why are the quotes from the three eyewitnesses spelled phonetically?  Just because the recorded disagreed with how they pronounced it does not mean that they weren't clearly saying the words:
The music, the fiddles and the banjos, the Jews harp, and all them other things. Such dancing you never seen before. Slaves would set the flow(?) in turns, and do the cakewalk most all night."[6]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.159.180.169 (talk) 23:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the phonetics? 

message: People can't watch this, it's marked private.  Take it out and find something else.
71.163.114.49 (talk) 15:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  youtube video 

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message: It does not have that much explanation Life of Una (talk) 09:31, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does the person do the dance