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Contrary to popular belief, Carolina Beach, not Myrtle Beach, S.C., gave birth to the shag, a popular dance that is associated with the beach culture.
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2434
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A combination of \"black jive,\" gospel, jump blues, and country, beach music, along with shag dancing, has remained a state tradition since Maurice Williams and others popularized it in the 1950s.
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8036
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Shag dancing has remained a state tradition since Maurice Williams and others popularized it in the 1950s. The core states in the shag world are North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Carolina Shag is an unofficial collection of fifty shag clubs statewide that keep this uniquely Carolina tradition alive. Toenes discusses the origin of the dance, some of the shag clubs, and why this dancing style has remained so popular.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 30, July 2006,
p21-26, il
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8860
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Born and bred in the Carolinas, the shag has been the official popular dance of North Carolina since the 2005 Session of the General Assembly passed legislation to make it so. Pittard discusses the history of the dance which reportedly has been around since the 1920s. Both North Carolina and South Carolina share the dance and the music it helped bring about. Each state had its own bands, clubs, contests, national shag champions, and disc jockeys who helped spread the dance.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
p94-96, 98, 100-101, il, por
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9426
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Shag dancing originated over sixty years ago in the Carolinas and has become a permanent part of Southern culture. In the early days only a small number of people had the desire to learn the intricate steps of the dance. Today, there are over one hundred shag clubs, located primarily in the Carolinas, and shag books, periodicals, radio stations, and websites. Brown traces the history of this style of dancing.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2007,
p18-32, il, bibl
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24599
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North Carolina’s state dance is the Carolina Shag. Shag dancing originated in the 1920s and was perfected during the 1930s and 1940s Swing Era. Carolinians gave it their own flavor by transforming it into a beach dance, resulting in the Carolina Shag.
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29096
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Beach music, as it's known in North and South Carolina, has history stemming from doo-wop, soul, and rhythm and blues of the 1950s and 1960s. Carolina beach music has a distinct style known as tropical rock, which is meant for people to dance and be social. It’s specific kind of dance, called the Carolina Shag, is the official state dance of North Carolina.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 26, July 2017,
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34974
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Fred Fletcher, owner of the Jolly Knave in 1960’s Raleigh, has started hosting reunions for the shag dancing community. Though the doors of the Jolly Knave closed in 1971 and the Atlantic Beach Jolly Knave was sold in 1978, hundreds of North Carolinians still remember them as the best dancing clubs in the state, and travel hundreds of miles for the annual reunions.
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37941
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Williams Lake and Lake Artesia gained this status by becoming teen summer hotspots and concert sites for 1950s and 1960s music legends like Mary Wells, Eddie Floyd, and Jackie Wilson. Legend status also grew from being popular places for the Shag, a dance associated with a musical genre originating in the Carolinas during this time: Beach.
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38259
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Helping to offer an understanding of beach music and shag is the author’s discussion of the dance style, its accompanying music, famous recording artists, and a disc jockey who played a pivotal role in making beach music and shag synonymous with Eastern North Carolina.
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