Participation dance is a class of dance that encourages dancing in a group such as a song composed by what accordion player in the 1950's?
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Participation dance Participation dance (also group-participation dance or audience participation dance) is a major class of dance that encourages dancing in a group. It includes social games based on dancing, for example at weddings, festivals and other social gatherings. Some have simple words to be sung to the music, which may act as a reminder of the steps - one example is the Hokey-cokey. Some consist of a few simple steps learned either from simple instructions given by a leader or from watching others. Examples are Electric Slide, Macarena, YMCA, and the Chicken Dance.
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Chicken Dance The "Chicken Dance", also known as the Birdie Song or the Chicken Song, is an oom-pah song and its associated fad dance is now a contemporary dance throughout the Western world. The song was composed by accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland, in the 1950s.
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Can-can The can-can (or cancan as in the original French; ] ) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. Originally danced by both sexes, it is now traditionally associated with a chorus line of female dancers. The main features of the dance are the high kicks, splits and cartwheels. The "Infernal Galop" from Jacques Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld" is the tune most associated with the can-can.
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German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra The German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra (German: Deutsches Tanz- und Unterhaltungsorchester; DTU) was a musical ensemble formed in 1942 by musicians Franz Grothe and Georg Haentzschel on the initiative of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. It was an attempt to create an acceptable alternative to jazz, which was a popular genre among Germans but was considered a form of degenerate music by the Nazis due to its racial associations. The self-styled "rhythmic dance music" produced by the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra was intended especially to satisfy the musical desires of military personnel, thus preventing them from listening to British radio broadcasts which also contained anti-Nazi propaganda material. Walter Dobschinski worked with the ensemble.
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Circle dance Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of dance done in a circle or semicircle to musical accompaniment, such as rhythm instruments and singing. Circle dancing is probably the oldest known dance formation and was part of community life from when people first started to dance.
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Dance, Dance, Dance (song) "Dance, Dance, Dance" is a song composed by Brian and Carl Wilson with lyrics by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was first released as a single in 1964 backed with "The Warmth of the Sun" and was released the following year as the sixth track on the Beach Boys' eighth studio album, "The Beach Boys Today!" "Dance, Dance, Dance" marks Carl Wilson's first recognised writing contribution to a Beach Boys single, his contribution being the song's primary guitar riff and solo.
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Partner dance Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
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Sandy Brechin Sandy Brechin is a Scottish musician and accordionist. He has developed an instantly recognisable style and is well known as a player, teacher and composer of traditional Scottish music.
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Solidarity Forever "Solidarity Forever", written by Ralph Chaplin in 1915, is perhaps the most famous union anthem. It is sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Although it was written as a song for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), other union movements, such as the AFL-CIO, have adopted the song as their own. The song has been performed by musicians such as Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, and was redone by Emcee Lynx and The Nightwatchman. It is still commonly sung at union meetings and rallies in the United States, Australia and Canada, and has also been sung at conferences of the Australian Labor Party and the Canadian New Democratic Party. This may have also inspired the hymn of the consumer cooperative movement, "The Battle Hymn of Cooperation", which is sung to the same tune.
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Minuet A minuet ( ; also spelled "menuet"), is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in  time. The word was adapted from Italian "minuetto" and French "menuet", possibly from the French "menu" meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular group dances called "branle à mener" or "amener".
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Acoustic Accordions Acoustic Accordions is a 2010 album by Michael Nyman and Motion Trio featuring Nigel Barr. It contains covers of popular Michael Nyman tracks from "Letters, Riddles and Writs", "Drowning by Numbers", "Prospero's Books", "The Diary of Anne Frank", "The Draughtsman's Contract", and "The Piano", as well as an original track by Janusz Wojtarowicz, leader of Motion Trio, who also arranged the works for accordion.
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Paul Stein (accordionist) Paul Stein is an accordionist, singer, and songwriter who doubles on the melodica and claviola. He is known for his musical support of struggles for progressive social change. Stein is one of the founding members of The Occuponics and is a member of the Filthy Rotten System band. Stein appeared as a guest member of the Kirov Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev at Avery Fisher Hall in the first Lincoln Center Festival on July 22, 1996. He has been a featured entertainer and interviewee on WNBC TV's "Live at Five" and other television and radio outlets. Stein has been on the program all 19 years of the annual Master Class & Concert series in Manhattan produced by his teacher Dr. William Schimmel for the American Accordionists' Association. Since 1983, he has performed (alone and in ensembles) for tens of thousands of diners at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners at YM/YWCA's and at The Goddard Riverside Community Center in New York City. In the past 30 years, he has provided entertainment at Christmas parties for thousands of children whose families are clients of The Legal Aid Society in New York City. He has also entertained at senior centers, nursing homes, and hospitals around New York City. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Stein's accordion was heard regularly at shelters housing hundreds of displaced survivors. The Occuponics were a fixture at Occupy Wall Street events in Zuccotti Park and around New York City from 2011 to 2013.
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Elite Syncopations "Elite Syncopations" is a 1902 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin, originally published in 1903 by John Stark & Son. One of his more popular works, it is one of a handful of Joplin's rags for which he recorded a piano roll. The cover of the original sheet music prominently features a well-dressed man and lady sitting on a treble staff, looking down upon a cherub clutching a cymbal in each hand, which reflects plainly the title of the piece. In 1974, the British Royal Ballet, under director Kenneth MacMillan, created the ballet "Elite Syncopations" based on tunes by Joplin and other composers of the era.
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Riverboat Shuffle "Riverboat Shuffle" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Mills and Dick Voynow, and with lyrics added later by Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. First recorded by Bix Beiderbecke and The Wolverines in 1924, it was Carmichael's first composition and would become a Dixieland standard. The Wolverines released the song as a Gennet 78, 5454-A, Matrix #11854 524, in 1924. Bix Beiderbecke recorded a second version of the song in 1927 with Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra which was released as an Okeh 78, 40822. Carmichael would later write many popular jazz standards, including "Stardust" (1929), "Georgia on My Mind" (1930) and "Lazy River" (1931).
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Chicken (dance) The Chicken is a popular rhythm and blues dance started in America in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken. The dance featured lateral body movements. It was used primarily as a change of pace step while doing the Twist. The chicken dance gained even more popularity when Rufus Thomas wrote "Do the Funky Chicken", a hit record in 1970.
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The Dancing Years (film) The Dancing Years is a 1950 musical British film based on the musical by Ivor Novello.
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Tango music Tango is a style of music in  or  time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina (collectively, the "Rioplatenses"). It is traditionally played on a solo guitar, guitar duo, or an ensemble, known as the "orquesta típica", which includes at least two violins, flute, piano, double bass, and at least two bandoneóns. Sometimes guitars and a clarinet join the ensemble. Tango may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist. Tango music and dance have become popular throughout the world.
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Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (also called "The Magic Song") is a novelty song, written in 1949 by Al Hoffman, Mack David, and Jerry Livingston. It was introduced in the 1950 film "Cinderella", performed by actress Verna Felton.
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Chicken Reel "Chicken Reel" is a dance tune. It was composed in 1910 by Joseph M. (Michael) Daly (1883–1968). Joseph Mittenthal added lyrics in 1911.
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Lenny Dee Leonard George DeStoppelaire (January 5, 1923 – February 12, 2006), better known as Lenny Dee, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s. His signature hit, "Plantation Boogie", charted as a Top 20 hit in 1955. He also had a gold record with 1970's "Spinning Wheel".
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The Safety Dance "The Safety Dance" is a song by Canadian new wave/synth-pop band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in 1983 as the second single from "Rhythm of Youth". The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogoing.
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Sigizmund Kats Sigizmund Abramovich Katz (Russian: Сигизмунд Абрамович Кац ; April 4, 1908 – June 17, 1984), was a Soviet composer who specialized in writing popular songs. One of the founding fathers of the genre of the Soviet "mass song", Katz became famous in the 1940s and 1950s. His songs ranged from lyrical serenades and ballads to marches and quasi-Straussian waltzes. Sigizmund Katz' professional reputation now rests primarily on his war-time song "And the Briansk Forest Rustled Sternly" (Шумел сурово Брянский лес…), with lyrics by Anatoly Sofronov, which is dedicated to the struggles of Soviet partisans against Nazi invaders, and which earned him the Stalin Prize (1950).