cakewalk
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“This young girl, not quite middle school yet, did the Cakewalk, with such swagger in her stance,” Ms. Williams said.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2020
An elaborately staged ball scene in which the cast performs the Cakewalk is the longest early record of black vernacular dance on film, the curators said.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2014
How does this film relate to your performance of “The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated From the House of Fame”?
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010
Out of New Hampshire's frozen farm lands and bucolic hamlets emerged a new equation for the Democratic Party; what had once been a Cakewalk was now a slashing dogfight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other two creations are the Cakewalk and ragtime.
From The Book of American Negro Poetry by Johnson, James Weldon
