Music/Dance/Reads

Unlike bopping (see here), jiving (known as jitterbug or swing in the USA) doesn’t seem to be performed atrociously by people, so this article only wants to draw attention to some great examples of the style. A recent example from 2019 by German couple Dietmar and Nellia shows that not all of us lose it […]

There was some great rock’n’roll in France in the rock’n’roll era (which I can’t call the 50s since French people always call the early rock’n’roll era les années soixantes ‘the sixties’ because the rock’n’roll only took off in that country in 1960-63 and faded as the Beatles appeared in 1964 and the sixties, as English-speakers understand it, began). Les années yé-yé ‘the […]