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The Nicest Kids in Town

Matt Delmont, Author

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Notes for "A New Dance Everyday"

[i] “American Bandstand: Review,” TV Guide, 22-23.
[ii] Arlene Sullivan, interviewed by author, July 7, 2006, transcript in author’s possession.
[iii] Pat Molittieri, “My Farewell to Bandstand,” ‘Teen, June 1959. For other American Bandstand coverage, see‘Teen Magazine Presents-My Bandstand Buddies, 1959; ‘Teen Magazine Presents-My Bandstand Blast!, 1960; and ‘Teen Magazine in August 1958, November 1958, February 1959, June 1959, October 1959, and December 1960.
[iv] “Meet ‘Banstand’s Dance Queen,” ‘Teen, June 1959.
[v] “American Bandstand Yearbook, 1958,” [no publication information listed], in author’s possession.
[vi] Ray Smith interview. In a documentary about the dance The Twist, Jimmy Peatross and Joan Buck tell a related story about learning how to do The Strand from black teenagers. Twist, dir. Ron Mann (Sphinx Productions, 1992).
[vii] Mullinax, “Radio Guided DJ to Stars.”
[viii] “Black Philadelphia Memories” dir. Trudi Brown.
[ix] On the black dance cultures out of which dances like The Stroll emerged, see Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Jookin’: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990); Lynne Fauley Emery, Black Dance from 1619 to Today, Second, Revised Edition (Hightstown, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1988); Barbara Glass, African American Dance (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006). On teen dances like The Stroll, see Tim Wall, “Rocking Around the Clock: Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965” in Ballroomk, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, ed. Julie Malnig (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
[x] Quoted in Jackson, American Bandstand, 211. Clark also discusses The Stroll in his autobiography, see Clark and Robinson, Rock, Roll, and Remember, 133-36.
[xi] “American Bandstand,” December 17, 1957.
[xii] Mullinax, “Radio Guided DJ to Stars.”
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