Saturday, August 28, 2010

Naw'Lins Resistance #3: The Meters--'Sophisticated Cissy' & 'Cissy Strut'



"Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut" date back to the late 1960s and a popular New Orleans Dance known as "The Sophisticated Cissy" which dance scholar Katrina Hazzard-Gordon suggest was a call for black men to step forward in the broader political and cultural sense. Gives a another layer of understanding to the contemporary "Sissy Bounce."--MAN






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