Tango     Origin of the dance The dance form derives from the Spanish habanera, the Uruguayan milonga and candombe, and is said to contain elements from the African community in Buenos Aires, influenced by ancient African dance forms. The dance originated in Buenos Aires and Montevideo during the late 19th century. The music derived from the fusion of music from Europe.[4] The word Tango seems to have first been used in Argentina in connection with the dance in the 1890s. In 1902 the Teatro Opera started to include tango in their balls.[5] Initially tango was just one of the many available local dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants. The development of the Tango had influences from the cultures of several peoples that came together in these melting pots of ethnicities. For this reason Tango is often referred to as the music of the immigrants to Argentina.[4]    :rolleyes: No one in their right mind thinks the Argentine Tango has anything at all to do with Blacks. Where do you get this crap from? Blacks invented the Tango now too?? That's as preposterous as saying Blacks invented the Waltz. Tango is 100% pure European in origins, invented by European immigrants in Buenos Aires, everyone knows that. Absolutely zero Black influence on the Tango. The key words here  and is said  yeah..said by who exactly? The same people who think Egyptians are Black:rolleyes: Anyone who thinks the Tango has Black origins is a moron or a Black centric liar.       The dance originated in lower-class districts of  Buenos Aires .  The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from  Europe . [1]   Jorge Luis Borges  in El idioma de los argentinos writes:Tango belongs to the  Rio de la Plata  and it is the son of  Uruguayan  milonga and grandson of the  habanera . The word  Tango  seems to have first been used in connection with the dance in the 1890s. Initially it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as  theatres  and street  barrel organs  spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European  immigrants .     Tango  is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of  Argentina  and  Uruguay . < the wikipedia is right this time;)    Stylistic origins European  styles, including  polka ,  milonga ,  habanera ,  flamenco ,  mazurka ,  contradanse      The first Tango ever recorded was made by  Angel Villoldo  and played by the French national guard in Paris. Villoldo had to record in Paris because in Argentina at the time there was no recording studio.    Carlos Gardel, the king of the Argentine Tango.....sounds very very African indeed  http://search.playlist.com/tracks/ca...20una%20cabeza  :rolleyes:     The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States of America by a 1923 tune called The Charleston by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild[1] and became one of the most popular hits of the decade. While it developed in African-American communities in the USA, the Charleston became a popular dance craze in the wider international community in the 1920s. Despite its black history, Charleston is most frequently associated with white flappers and the speakeasy. Here, these young women would dance alone or together as a way of mocking the drys, or citizens who supported the Prohibition amendment, as Charleston was then considered quite immoral and provocative. Charleston was one of the dances from which Lindy Hop developed in the 1930s, though the breakaway is popularly considered an intermediary dance form[citation needed]. A slightly different form of Charleston became popular in the 1930s and 40s, and is associated with Lindy Hop. In this later Charleston form, the hot jazz timing of the 1920s Charleston was adapted to suit the swing jazz music of the 30s and 40s. This style of Charleston has many common names, though the most common are 'Lindy Charleston', 'Savoy Charleston', '30s or 40s Charleston' and 'Swing(ing) Charleston'. In both '20s Charleston' and 'Swinging Charleston' the basic step takes 8 counts and was danced either alone or with a partner.[citation needed].... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Yep. Supposedly that silly little dance called the Charleston was started by Blacks. Maybe it really was , maybe not. I've never looked into it and don't really want to. You guys can have it. It's not a real dance anyways, just acting like a fool.    Swing Dance The term swing dance commonly refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, although the earliest of these dance forms predate swing jazz music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today. While the majority of swing dances began in African American communities as vernacular African American dances, a number of forms (Balboa, for example) developed within Anglo-American or other ethnic group communities. The earliest forms of swing dance, such as the Black Bottom, charleston and tap dance, are associated with Dixieland jazz, which developed in New Orleans in the south of the United States. These sorts of dances traveled north with jazz to cities like New York, Kansas City, and Chicago in the Great Migration that began in the 1920s, where rural blacks traveled north to escape persecution, Jim Crow laws, lynching and, later, high unemployment in the South during the Great Depression. Swing jazz features the syncopated timing associated with African American and West African music and dance — a combination of crotchets and quavers (quarter notes and eighth notes) that many swing dancers interpret as 'triple steps' and 'steps' — yet also introduces changes in the way these rhythms were played — a distinct delay or 'relaxed' approach to timing. Today there are swing dance scenes in many developed countries throughout the world. Lindy Hop is often the most popular, though each city and country varies preferences various dances in different degrees. Each local swing dance community has a distinct local culture and defines swing dance and the appropriate music to accompany it in different ways....    Blacks came up with some stupid looking dances that involve hopping and jumping around on one leg and flapping your arms like a moron, yes, everyone knows that. You can have your little dances. We don't want them. I wouldn't try to discredit this monumental Black achievement. I always give credit where it is due.