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in general and jazz specifically both have strong links to the
dance. One of the most influential elements of African culture
was its polyrhythmic nature, which found expression in dance.
Certainly, this is responsible for a great deal of what we think
of as the vernacular American dance style in all of its myriad
extensions. Long before the early 20th century, when jazz
evolved, the various dance steps that had originated in and
around the plantation set