5.1: Introduction

The United States is known as the birthplace for many great things - America’s Greatest Pastime, baseball; the light bulb; the airplane; GPS; jazz music and jazz dance. The term “melting pot” has been used often to describe the method by which American cultures have formed. People from all parts of the world immigrated to the country and, by melding ideas and innovations, and manners and communities; new cultures were forged. This is the same phenomenon that created American Jazz Dance.

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