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Dance developed from African tribal dances that were brought to the Caribbean and to American by African slave in the 17th and 18th centuries. As social dance, jazz dance originated in black social dances of the 19th century and earlier; around 1910, beginning with the cakewalk and turkey trot, diluted forms of black social dances were adopted into white social dance. Some social jazz dances, such as the Charleston, jitterbug, and twist, have movements traceable to African and early slave dances; others, such as the fox-trot, began as European dances adapted to jazz rhythms

 
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