Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:47:24 EST

From: "Janet M. Fuller" JMCFULL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU

Subject: cakewalk



Although the cakewalk as kind of a musical chairs

to win a cake is what I'm familiar with from my

Minnesota childhood, I've also heard tell of a

completely different kind of cakewalk, i.e. a

dance competition. My only reference to that

is from a book by Charles Chesnutt, a turn of the

century African American writer (I believe it was

'The Marrow of Tradition') -- there's a rather

important episode involving a cakewalk, which in

this case was a dance competition among African

Americans.



Janet Fuller

jmcfull[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu