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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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