Date:  Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:49:09 CST

From:  Mike Picone <MPICONE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UA1VM.UA.EDU>

Subject: cakewalk



Definition 1) I don't recall anybody mentioning the fact that Chuck Berry

was notorious for his cakewalk: guitar slung low across the hip, legs

advancing scissor-like below the knees, he half-glided half skipped

across the front of the stage as he hammered out the refrain from

Johnny B. Goode. Are any other cakewalks as famous? I don't know if this was

a left-over from the Minstrel tradition or not.



Definition 2)

We also have cakewalks in primary schools in Tuscaloosa at fund-raising

events. Parents bake cupcakes. Kids pay a quarter to walk around a kind

of horizontal clock-face with numbers. When the music stops, kid gets a

cupcake from the batch bearing the number he/she stopped on.



Mike Picone

University of Alabama

MPICONE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UA1VM.UA.EDU