The disappearing dance: maxixe's imperial erasure.

From: Black Music Research Journal | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

"category crisis" ... not the exception but rather the ground of culture itself."

(Garber 1992, 16)

In 1914, a revue at New York City's Winter Garden celebrated a fabulous dance, just then all the rage: 

 
   The other night a dear, old friend said, "A ball we will 
      attend!" 
   Said he'd show me all the latest dances to date 
   Promised me he wouldn't keep me out very late, 
   So we lost no time at all but we taxied to the hall. 
   First we did a "Tango," then did a "Trot," No "Hesitation" at 
      all. 
   Then he said, "Now Lilian, Let's do the Brazilian 
   And ...

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