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By: Mr. Roger M. Christian
  
The Cha Cha Revolution:
In Havanah, Cuba during the early to Mid ' 50s, several roving bands of Cuban youth went around asking Americans for nickles, times etc.  Their torn tee-shirts told their story all too well.  Moreover, the city in which they play, beged and lived, Havanah was growing.  Populations from the country side fled to Cuba's major cities in the hope to find work. Previous rains and flooding caused problems with Cuban agriculture.
  
About that time, American popular culture was making  significant in-roads into Cuban Middle Class Society - which also meant that it was also American Mob influenced.  The Organized Crime Families owned much of the Hotel and Gambling Casinos at that time. The Batista Government was totally bribed  by thase thugs- Myer Lansky was the fait accompli Prime Minister and Exchecker of Cuba..
  
Never-the-less, it was the growing popularity of Elvis, espeically his hip action, which  finally ignited the cultural clash.  The Cuban teens-who were trying to survive, and whose desires and expectations looked to the Cuab mountains knowing there was Castrol-were about to launch themselves into cultural history.
  
A couple years earlier.  Cha Cha Cha / Chas Chas Chas had already made some initiative forewrays into Cuban culture by those who desired a slower version of the Mambo.  This percepitated the : chasse : movement to also appear-for they were not that too old.
  
Never-the-less, and a couple years later, with the coming of Elvis, along with his hip action , into the picture of Cuban mainstream middle class culture, what also followed was the jitterbug - a Southern version of the Lindy Hop ( then ). The convergence of these cultural developments inflamed the nationalistic passions of these Cuban teens.  There was the foreseen vision by these teens of Elvis's radical hip action replacing Cuban Motion ever looming over the horizon.
  
Then Chas Chas Chas exploded in Nationalistic cultural revival epitones to Latina Musica.
  
The first appearence of radical street dances first appeared in Cuban cultural history and now " established " traditions, and have not stopped since, and what happended is that these teen started to play a faster form of Chas Chas Chas ( the Cuban word for Cha Cha - etc ), and took of the flare swing and under-arm turns of the Jitterbug and Cubanized it with Cuban hip  motions into a full blown Chas Chas Chas street dance.  The influence of Elvis, hip and all, was suddenly lost, the only time in popular culture history to have ever occured.
 
About then Castrol made his move, and when Chas Cahs Chas was at the height of its Cuban popularity, and virtually invading every American urban center where there were Latinas playing Latina Danza - Salsa, Castrol enter the City of Havanah.
  
At the center where all this took place, the plaza was renamed to Chas Chas  Plaza, and adjacent is a dance hall with some of these at one time torn tee -  shirted  teens, now aged dancers still cling to their dance, and among some of the best cigars in the world. Whose smoke mixes with the most delightful scent of perfumes-all Cuban made.
  
Since the 50's, and even though the Castrol government tried to curb creativity with in  Cuban music, and subsequently dance, the cycle of innovative street dances still is on-going.  There are still roving teens with torn tee - shirts, and even though the American mob has left, except for the newer forms coming from Columbia.  Thus during every 6 year cycle a new dance appears, and it all started when the first batch of Cuban teens who went into a nationalistic cultural revival to resist the intrusion of popular American culture into the folkways of Cuban society.
  
Ask any one who is Elvis in Havanah, and you get nothing but a very perplex face.
  
Mr. Roger M. Christian
August 7, 2004
Dance & Social Revolution
Mr. Roger M. Christian 02 Dec 2005 21:01 GMT
 
The leading social event in Latin America in which both the working poor and other of lower economic classifications are Latin social dances. This should be common place here in America. Moreover, it is one of the most significant community event in which vital inforamtion is socially exchanged.
Dance & Social Revolution.

The 1930s through the 1960s social dance was the main staple of socializing within America which was independent of both public education and the church. They key factor for its, then, existing popularity was due to the fact its was mostly attended by the working poor and middle classes. This was an outgrpowth of the ' Great Depression ' and went into high gear as a result of WWII and servicemen facing the realities of the war. Later on during the 50s and 60s social dance was penitrated by the Franchise studios systems, the high profile marketing, the workers could not compete with the modny being invested, and slowly the workers lost interests as a result of rise of these dance studio systems.

At Ithaca, New York there is an effort to develop an American Economy Social Dance program in which to re-empower the workers ( working poor and middle classes ) in developing social dances. Classes like for exmple Ballroom Dance Classes Ithaca  http://hometown.aol.com/trifalcondove/ballroom_dance.html have attracted those who needs ballroom dance for their weddings. Once the cost went down, the demand went up for ballroom classes. The same also applied to Latin Dance Classes Ithaca  http://hometown.aol.com/trifalcondove/latin_dance.html in as much as this attracted those who were recent immigrants. The highlight of this effort was the Swing - Lindy Hop dance classes  http://hometown.aol.com/trifalcondove/swing_lindy-hop_dance.html in as much as this is the dance of the working classes - blue jeans, bubby gum, pony tails and all. It was the swing element which indicated that as the cost of the lessons ( most certainly woith swing ) went down, the demand for social dances went up, almost immediately.

What was also observed, in those events in which the workers controled, the more pleasant the social atmosphers, as well as personal better manners. The single importance of which produced social stability first and foremost. this translated into other form of social interaction, but it is still the stability this approach which should be motivation to promote this nation - wide.

Not only the quality of every day life increased, but the value was being placed more upon character as a result. Thus, the conditions for role modeling was set as a result.
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