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Do you know about sock hops?
No but my brain is now singing that song 'At the Hop'. I assume it was a dance venue?
Do you know about sock hops?
LOL, it is a dance evening. And it was fun as kids and teens. Last time I attended one was in 1977. We were awkward with emotions and attractions, and the teachers and principal and parents would chapherone the dances, and help us through pubescence. It was a magical time...No but my brain is now singing that song 'At the Hop'. I assume it was a dance venue?![]()
It is the celebration of the beginning of the school year, and a welcome back for the alumni MS. The students create "floats" and a huge parade goes through the city/town, prior to the game. That evening everyone dresses up in their formal best, and meet for dancing and dinner. It is a fun time (especially if the home team wins...) lolThanks Q. So is the dance and ballgame etc, all a celebration of the end of school year and return to the family?
We Brits are rather simple people we used to have an 'End of Year Disco' - doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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help us through pubescence. It was a magical time...
It is the celebration of the beginning of the school year
OMG you Americans are so gung ho LOL...
You celebrate going back to school? Do they put drugs in the tap water in the US? Our parents had to drag us back kicking and screaming.
Indeed, we are a strange lot. And yes we celebrate going back to school...
Now I know why you have so many shrinks in the US![]()
Hi Bob...
Music history teaches that " the Blues had a baby and they called it Rock 'n Roll. Actually the Blues was considered to be the "first devil's music". This all goes back to the mythos involving the life of Robert Johnson a famous troubador in the Mississippi delta country near Clarksville TN early in the 20th century.
The legend goes that he was travelling the "juke" circuit in the region and prayed for special talents on the guitar to further his career. He was met at a highway crossroads outside of Greenville Mississippi by a dark stranger who spoke briefly with him, shook his hand, and then walked away into the darkness. From then on Johnson dazzled everybody with his skills and became a Blues music legend, while living a miserable personal life before he died. Hence the legend concerning "the devil's music".
There's also a Hollywood connection in an older film about the life of W.C. Handy who wrote the St. Louis Blues, which I remember also as the title of the film. Handy's father was a Baptist minister and popularized the term "the devil's music" when his son W.C., who was played by Nat "King" Cole, was accused on screen by his father of writing and playing " the devil's music".
At the time (40's-50's) that this bit of dialogue was written and spoken in the film, current culture was highly focused upon picking up common knowledge by what the populace heard on the radio and watched in motion pictures. The "idiot box" had not yet taken over that primary role in cultural innovation. So the Hollywood introduction of the term probably had more of a public effect over time than did the Robert Johnson legend.
I'm a Blues fan myself and I love it because it's the music written and sung about sad things in life, but it magically makes you feel better when you listen to it. Perverse, but effective.
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"Innocent" beginnings???? Everybody knew it was the DEVIL'S music, and no mistake!
Hi Patti...There are lots of disclaimers and qualifications in this Wiki article, but then his life was shadowy, legendary, and controversial also.
flow....
Robert Johnson (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A sock hop is for when you DON'T HAVE a dance venue, so you make do with a basketball court or the like, and everybody has to take their shoes off so you don't scuff the floor.
Just trying to help others out here with things they might not know.
I didn't know who he was and I still don't, the link has got no info on it.![]()