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    Master Juba (ca. 1825 – ca. 1852 or 1853) was an African-American dancer active in the 1840s. He was one of the first black performers in the United States...
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    The Juba dance or hambone, originally known as Pattin' Juba (Giouba, Haiti: Djouba), is an African-American style of dance that involves stomping as well...
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  • Look up Juba or juba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Juba is the capital of South Sudan. Juba may also refer to: Juba, Estonia, a village in Võru...
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    known as Pete Williams's Place, that Master Juba, a young African-American dancer, performed in the early 1840s. Juba was influential in the development...
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    as various slides and shuffles. The most famous early jig dancer was Master Juba, an African-American who inspired a host of white imitators, many of...
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    young black man known as Master Juba. Diamond and Juba fought dance-offs through the mid-1840s; records indicate that Juba won all but one. Accordingly...
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    into Almack's, where it gave rise in the short term to tap dance (see Master Juba) and in the long term to a music hall genre that was a major precursor...
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  • song that sounded to their masters like merriment, but held a more ominous double meaning. "Juba dis and juba dat, and juba killed da yellow cat, You sift...
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    vaudeville acts, including the 1840s dance and musical performances of Master Juba who was able to elicit a wide range of sounds from the instrument including...
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    the Bowery. Whilst there he seems to have employed the famous dancer Master Juba, who apparently toured with his minstrel troupe. In addition to the Melodeon...
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