{"id":27,"date":"2014-03-04T03:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:30:08","slug":"clorindy-the-origin-of-the-cakewalk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/clorindy-the-origin-of-the-cakewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk by Will Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a single act musical by Will Cook, a composer and Paul Dunbar, a librettist. This musical had a large cast and its dancer-comedian, Ernest Hogan, was the star. Will Cook is best known for his popular songs on broadway musicals.\u00a0Cook thought &#8220;Negroes should eschew white patterns&#8221; and try hard to make a culture of their own, creating their own identity, not just copy dancing styles of the white culture. I definitely feel like throughout history, African Americans have done that with dance as seen through the Cakewalk. They made the Cakewalk a simple dance at first and then it evolved into something worldwide today. With that said, Cook had a vision of making the first dance show that had a black only cast on Broadway to help bring identity to the race.<\/p>\n<p>Will Cook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/files\/2014\/03\/will-marion-cook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63\" alt=\"will-marion-cook\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/files\/2014\/03\/will-marion-cook.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uVoGK9WsqWQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uVoGK9WsqWQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video shows a modern representation of one of the songs that Will Cook used in the musical, &#8220;Clorindy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a single act musical by Will Cook, a composer and Paul Dunbar, a librettist. This musical had a large cast and its dancer-comedian, Ernest Hogan, was the star. Will Cook is best known for his popular songs on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/clorindy-the-origin-of-the-cakewalk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":774,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcovell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}