Hey you forgot tap dancing, rag time music and motown. Ah if we could only go back to those good old days! The Irish invented TAP DANCING!!!!!!:mad: And there is no proof that Blacks created Ragtime, that's just what they like to say, no one knows for sure who started that extinct, novelty music. Whoever may have been the first to play that style... the first published Ragtime music was published by Whites and the majority of Ragtime music was published by Whites... Motown, they have that, and being from Michigan myself, I happen to be a fan.     The Encyclopedia Britannica definition for tap dance is: A style of American theatrical dance using precise rhythmical patterns of foot movement and audible foot tapping.  It is derived from the traditional clog dance of northern England, the jigs and reels of Ireland and Scotland , and  possibly  the rhythmic foot stamping of African dances.  :rolleyes: