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black bottom

n
(Dancing) a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
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black bottom

A 1920s ballroom craze, it was characterized by slide and hobble steps, Charleston rhythm and a slap on the backside.
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Aubin Street in Detroit's bustling Black Bottom neighborhood.
The book's content, including thoroughgoing discussions of such luminaries as the esteemed abolitionist William Lambert, school pioneer Fannie Richards, former Mayor Coleman Young, as well as the city's legendary Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, the Motown sound and its acclaimed founder and artists, and several of the nationally prominent political formations--the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Republic of New Afrika, and the Shrine of the Black Madonna.
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"I say all the prayers I can say beforehand," says jones, "but once I get onstage and the lights come up, all that melts away." For her next role, as legendary singer Ma Rainey in WBTT's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, jones feels her biggest challenge is adapting her ballad-style delivery to Rainey's blues sound.
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And in Pittsburgh, Wilson's hometown, the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company recently capped its own decade-long milestone, having presented all 10 Wilson plays in 10 consecutive years, and in the order in which they premiered in New York, starting with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and ending this past summer with Radio Golf which closed on June 29.
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Our moving is not Ragtime, not a Charleston kick, not the Black Bottom.
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