Problem
A. Where did early tap dancers learn to tap?
B. Why did West African enslaved people transfer their rhythms from their drums to their bodies and feet?
C. What did the wave of Irish immigrants during the mid 18th century bring with them as they fled to the United States?
D. Black dancers adopted several of the Irish dances' steps with the exception of what?
E. Tap found a home with the rise of what 1840 performance scene?
F. What grotesque caricature was an immediate hit with the white minstrel show audiences?
G. Who broke the white minstrel stage-color barrier?
H. What did one handbill call him?
I. Who was his greatest competition and what did his competition represent?
J. What did Master Jubas" style become known as?
K. What soft shoe steps did Billy Kersands popularize in the 1870s?
L. What Memphis hip hop dance style did those movements resemble?
M. What dancer created a refined style that because an inspiration for many of the "class act" tappers of the 1930s and 40s?
N. The typical minstrel show involved three parts, what were they?
O. Which of the 5 elements of Hip Hop does this remind you of?
P. What did the Olio finally become?
Q. What was the average size of a Vaudeville tap act?
R. What jazz steps emerged gradually on the minstrel and vaudeville circuits?
S. What two jazz steps became part of tap's set repertory?
T. Research/find two videos of dancers performing the above two jazz steps and cut and paste the links to those videos as a response.