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trollday

By On 21st April, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, lindy hop and other dances, magazines, wimminz

Thursday is, according to the word on the twitters, #trollday. I’m not really sure what that means. At first I thought it meant that we should post troll-y things on teh twitz or on our blogs or on the faceplants. In the sense that they should be deliberately inciting furious debate.

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pop culture, jazz and ethnicity.

By On 25th May, 2009 · 2 Comments · In lindy hop and other dances, magazines, menz, music, research

NB: I’ve done some edits on this post for the shocking grammar/mistypes. Apologies.
In the 1930s and 40s – most particularly the 40s – jazz was mainstream music. It was popular. Though it had been discussed in a range of specialist magazines and periodicals (including Down Beat and Metronome) for years, the mid-40s saw [...]

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