The Apache Dance
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1950-03
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Two women in either redface or blackface dance together in the 1950 minstrel show, the Darktown Jamboree, at Kalamazoo College. An article in the March 27, 1950 issue of the Index referred to this act in the minstrel show as an “Apache Dance.” According to Merriam Webster dictionary, an apache dance is “a violent duet dance of the Parisian underworld” or “a subdued version of such a dance in vaudeville, burlesque, and revues.”* Although the dance was French in origin, the term “apache” was used to refer to violent street gangs of Paris, in reference to the stereotype of the Apache people as savages.
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Kalamazoo College