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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:
Today in Labor History May 28, 1912: Fifteen women were fired from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company, in Philadelphia, for dancing the Turkey Trot. They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy. The Turkey Trot was a fast dance, generally danced by the members of the youth counterculture, to ragtime tunes, like Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. The Vatican denounced the dance. Conservatives tried to get it banned. Some dancers were fined by the courts for “disorderly conduct.” In 1913, a conservative reaction song was produced called the Anti-Ragtime Girl. In 1963, Little Eva (of Locomotion fame) recorded a tribute to the Turkey Trot called Let’s Turkey Trot.
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