Dude! How do you find this stuff? It's fascinating to see someone doing something like this over 100 years ago, when most people thought break dancing was invented much more recently. Very cool!
 

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
 

Hadg Cheriff looks more like a traditional African dance...Say for summoning something, or the like...

Didn't street Arabs have to entertain for money in Edison's time?

It's amazing what people will adapt from others, and still be able to claim as "their own original style," while they give no credit to the people who came before them...
 

Thanks a lot Cynth for pointing out this interesting article about how monopolies work.

Here's what I'd like to add:
It does happen that people buy a record from hearing a song just once (even though they might be only of a neglectable number), and the general shrinking tendency of the music business seems to affect independent labels as well (like V2 folded into Artemis, Ryko sold to a major, etc.).
And copy-protection mechanisms like the one that EMI still uses all around the world except in the US, alienated the public much more than all those promo campaigns about the illegality of file sharing, especially in the wake of the so-called Sony BMG rootkit debacle from, I think, two years back. So folding a bit here and merging a bit there under pressure from the stock exchange will most likely just free a few more great artists from their contracts, so they can go indie, using the measures listed under Step 5. But wait, myspace is corporate, too, and working towards gaining a monopoly as well ...
So we'll just have to see how that develops.

Bye
Y.
 

That's right. At the time it would have been called street dancing. Are you really eighteen?
 

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Dear Mr. Burnett, I suspect they were dancing to "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight!"
Back when my great-grandfather was a young man, he joined the U.S. Army to see the world, and was promptly sent half-way around it in 1902 to find those bad religious extremists on the island of Mindanao during the Philippine Insurrection. Of course, having lived on that remote island for at least several hundred years, they didn't quite see it that way. Another case of fighting not so much for a cause, but because _you_ are _here_, as Shelby Foote related, w.r.t. the Civil War. Yours, Major Tom and his Band of Deserters.