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Takes the Cake - 8 May 2023

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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The Origins of the Cake Walk

This particular cake walk branched out after emancipation and black Americans took it into other corners of American culture. It became stylized both as different types of music and as regularized dances. And you can actually find it being performed in videos on YouTube of the Library of Congress has old videos of it.

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