Niños Bailando Salsa Estilo Caleño

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Melies - Le Cake-Walk Infernal -Music: "Satan's Cakewalk"

"Cakewalk music was the Hip Hop of the late 1890s and early 1900s. It was one of the first music forms that had been invented by African Americans which was popular with both blacks and whites.

The cakewalk style was probably started as a mocking imitation by slaves of white slave owners. It evolved into white performers wearing blackface to imitate and often deride blacks. In New Orleans, one of the best known marching "krewes" of Mardi Gras are the Zulus. The Zulus are blacks who started wearing exaggerated blackface in the early 1900s as a way of mocking white people in blackface...who were mocking black people who were originally mocking white slave owners.

While many white performers in blackface did their best to rip off and exploit black culture for their own gain, it is also true that many whites back then were fascinated by black music and dance. The two excellent main dancers in this movie just seem to be enjoying the hell out of themselves. They don't seem to be intentionally trying to make anyone look bad (like so many blackface wearing performers did). Not to excuse them or anything, but sometimes things aren't always just black and white."Thanks eximod