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Teach Me How to Boogie #1: Bounce
by Chris Randle Part of my excitement over this blog’s inception came from the possibility of writing about unfamiliar subjects, topics that nobody would pay a rube to opine on. One that I had in mind...
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Teach Me How to Boogie #2: “The Monkey Man”
by Chris Randle “The Monkey Man,” a dance rap single by Lil Buck and Lil Deezy, became a minor local hit on Louisiana radio around the start of this year. I found out about it soon after – not from a...
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Teach Me How to Boogie #3: Morris Dancing
by Chris Randle A few months ago, I gave my dad a burnt CD for Father’s Day. It was an old compilation I’d stumbled across online: BBC’s Folk on 2 Presents Northumbrian Folk. Northumbria (or...
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Teach Me How to Boogie #4: “Teach Me How to Dougie,” by California Swag District
by Chris Randle In the first installment of TEACH ME HOW TO BOOGIE, I talked to my friend Amelia Ehrhardt about bounce music and the moves that go with it. She’s still studying dance at York...
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Teach Me How to Boogie #5: DJ Chipman
by Chris Randle My family’s elderly dog died this week, which hasn’t allowed me much time to post, so here’s a brief edition of Teach Me How to Boogie. The music in the clip above was made by DJ...
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Event: B2TW’s 100,000th Word Party! (March 23)
When Chris, Margaux and Carl started Back to the World last summer, we talked about having a launch party but were too busy launching the site actually to do it. Now there are nearly 100,000 words on...
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B2TW’s 100,000th Word Party: Guests Announced!
Last month, we announced an overdue launch party for B2TW. It’s happening on March 23, at Double Double Land; $5 will get you in the door. And now we can reveal the interesting locals who’ll be meeting...
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Teach Me How to Boogie Guest Post: Beyonce vs De Keersmaeker
by Amelia Ehrhardt In October of 2011, more than a dozen of my Facebook friends posted a video called “Split Screen Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Beyonce Knowles”, a video highlighting the...
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