Category: Shag Dancing
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Golden Oldies
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[av_image src=’http://bobryanwrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/booksigning1-300×225.jpg’ attachment=’228′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’left’ animation=’pop-up’ link=’lightbox’ target=” styling=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=”][/av_image] The best part of me will always live for the rhythms of summer, in the Land of Shag, where…
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The Birth of Beach Music
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Come the summer 2015, seventy-two years ago, new music that would mesmerize teenagers worldwide was heard first on the beaches of North and South Carolina. Southern kids called it Beach…
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Shag: Gut-Level Rhythm & Blues
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Come the summer of 2015, the Shag, the legendary dance of the South, will celebrate its 72nd anniversary of conception. In June of 1943, it came to pass that Race…
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Silver Soldier – Silver Fox
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In the Land of Shag, I watched a pretty woman dancing smooth as a glassy ocean. Her backside boogie walked cool as a breeze on a humid afternoon. She was a…