Uncle Tom's Cabin - Group and Solo Cakewalk dance (1903)
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- 1903 Uncle Tom's Cabin Group Cakewalk scene with some solo cakewalk dance as well.
from Streetswing.com excerpt: It originated in Florida by the African-American slaves who got the basic idea from the Seminole Indians (couples walking solemnly).The original idea of the Cakewalk was that of a couple promenading in a dignified manner, dressed in Sundays best, high stepping and kicking, mimicking whitey's high society. Some of the better plantation owners would bake a special cake called a hoecake wrapped in cabbage leaf on Sundays and invite the neighbors over and have a contest of the slaves, different prizes were given but originally it was a Hoecake for the males and molasses pulled candy for the ladies and whichever slave(s) won, would get the cake / Candy ... thus the term "That Takes The Cake!" (Plus others such as 'It's a Cakewalk' = very easy) and the name "Cakewalk" was now set. The dance grew in popularity even after the Civil War (1861-1865), but it would change and become more grand in style and clothing as time marched on.
...for more info on the Cakewalk and others see:
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the cakewalk originated in the Antebellum period among slaves wishing to mock the high strutting ways of their masters. On Sundays, these slaves would dress up in their best clothes and do a high-kicking dance which attracted the attention of the master and his family, who never caught on that they were the brunt of this joke. The masters arranged for competitions among the slaves to see who could do the best strut. The winner was awarded a cake, and hence the cakewalk was born. After the war, many ex-slaves made their living as performers, and many of these performed the cakewalk and other plantation dances. The cakewalk ultimately became an international craze around the turn of the century. It also became popular at the University of Vermont (UVM) where white fraternity brothers in black-face would perform the cakewalk as part of a winter festival. And so the dance intended to alleviate black rage by mocking slave owners became a dance making fun of black people. The cakewalk festival was finally abandoned at UVM in the fall of 1969 under pressure from the NAACP. The fraternities which had been training dancers for the 1970 winter cakewalk competition, however, refused to give it up. Some of them organized a cakewalk demonstration on Redstone Campus one night. The demonstration came to an abrupt halt when African Americans bravely stood in the path of the dancers. The dance has since disappeared entirely from UVM. Long may it rest in peace.
+Kimberly Davis Well played, Kimberley :o)
+calihartley2010 AS opposed to a snivelling, insecure man like you that looks back to the days of white slave owners as the epoch of civilisation - guess what, white as superior beings was played out by Hitler around 80 years ago, and guess what, you lost, and you'll lose again, as would anyone who thinks one skin colour is better than another
+Kimberly Davis :)
+calihartley2010 And ragtime was 'white', was it? Yours sincerely, Scott Joplin.
Hi Kimberly, Thank you for providing this. Where can I reference this information?
Cakewalk was a plantation dance the slaves created to mock the plantation owners and their guests. It eventually became a popular dance.
The style of piano play is called "Ragtime".
Cool video
As popular as cakewalks apparently were, there are (so far) too few examples on youtube... I'd love to see a documentary on the subject.
There was no film when actual cakewalks existed.
Thanks for sharing this - amazing piece of history
Kendrick the 🐐
magic of a people!
*HOTTEST* moves of 1903!
I really love the music.
Superbe pièce d’archive, la musique est bien aussi.
Awesome!
I'd like to find a video of cakewalk dancers dancing to cakewalk music(usually piano instrumentals)
the music here does seem fitting though haha
There was no film with audio back then.
@@silvermediastudio I mean separate audio and video from different times synced today.
Technically sound films existed at that time but just short and experimental ones. There were just a few of them unlike silent films.
@@wachamcaulid I gotcha. Hmm.. shouldn't be too hard to make with LightWorks free version
esto es realmente increíble!
Despite the picture quality I think this is still funny! Maybe the only chance of mocking their enslavers...
LSAT PT54 S1, Passage 3 anyone?
So, what's so easy about that?
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this shit is dope
Badass!
Shakes in blackandwhite with funky piano music.
Hoecake was a meal cooked while out in the fields. The farming tool--the hoe--was heated, and corn meal and water were placed upon it to cook. Cakewalk cake is something else entirely.
охрененная музыка!
Where did this clip come from?
Its a clip from 1903 silent movie Uncle Toms Cabin , i think its one of the only Clips where you get the true idea of the dance
interesting
This is ragtime music right?
No
Yea it is
Cakewalk
It is NOT ragtime. Listen to Tom Turpin or Scott Joplin-- played by Reginand R. Robinson
Can we enjoy anything from the distant past without pointing out that those people weren't perfect and implying that we are?
I wish we could.
Nope, blacks are too fragile.
Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it Derek…
@@LuzMaria95take that flag out of your pfp lol. It’s from the past and p.r is not a country
Context is everything!!
Cakewalks are basically harlem
Blacks moved into Harlem about forty years after the Cakewalk had its national heyday
No it isn't. Lindy Hop, however, is.
There's nothing Harlem about this. The cakewalk originates among the enslaved of Southern plantations, so the dance predates major black presence in Harlem by a few decades.