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jive

(n): a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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8 months ago Treeseed said:

Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated among African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance.

In Ballroom dancing, Jive is one of the five International Latin dances. In competition it is danced at a speed of 44 bars per minute, although in other cases this is reduced to between 32 and 40 bars per minute.

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