Contemporary sources for dance crazes include music videos and movies. This continued in the 1980s with the popular song " Walk like an Egyptian", in the 1990s with the " Macarena", in the 2000s with " The Ketchup Song" and in the 2010s with " Gangnam Style". In the early 1970s, disco spawned a succession of dance fads including the Bump, the Hustle, and the Y.M.C.A. Songs such as " The Loco-Motion" were specifically written with the intention of creating a new dance and many more pop hits, such as " Mashed Potato Time" by Dee Dee Sharp, were written to cash in recent successful novelties. Standardized versions of dance moves were published in dance and teen magazines, often choreographed to popular songs. One list of Fad Dances compiled in 1971 named over ninety dances. In 1965, Latin group Cannibal and the Headhunters had a hit with the 1962 Chris Kenner song Land of a Thousand Dances which included the names of such dances. Many 1950s and 1960s dance crazes had animal names, including " The Chicken" (not to be confused with the Chicken Dance), " The Pony" and "The Dog". Among these were the Madison, "The Swim", the " Mashed Potato", " The Twist", " The Frug" (pronounced / f r ʊ ɡ/), " The Watusi", " The Shake" and " The Hitch hike". cities like New York, Philadelphia and Detroit. Many were popularized (or commercialized) versions of new styles or steps created by African-American dancers who frequented the clubs and discothèques in major U.S. From the 1950s to the 1970s, new dance fads appeared almost every week. They are also called dance fads or dance crazes.Īs the pop music market got bombed in the late 1950s, dance fads were commercialized and exploited. and the Hokey Pokey, have shown much longer-lasting lives. Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. JSTOR ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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