Jitterbug can be used as a noun to refer to a swing dancer or various types of swing dances, for example, the Lindy Hop, Jive, West Coast Swing, and East Coast Swing. This has led to confusion within the dance community, since jitterbug can refer to different kinds of swing dances. It can also be used as a verb to mean someone dancing to swing music. For example, "People were top-notch jitterbugging, jumping around, cutting loose and going crazy".
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Jitterbug can be used as a noun to refer to a swing dancer or various types of swing dances, for example, the Lindy Hop, Jive, West Coast Swing, and East Coast Swing. This has led to confusion within the dance community, since jitterbug can refer to different kinds of swing dances. It can also be used as a verb to mean someone dancing to swing music. For example, "People were top-notch jitterbugging, jumping around, cutting loose and going crazy".
Various editions of Arthur Murray's "How To Become a Good Dancer" contain the following text. "There are hundreds of regional dances of the Jitterbug type", "A favorite with young New Yorkers is the Lindy Hop" (1947), "Whether it's called Swing, Lindy or Jitterbug.." (1954). "Formerly called Jitterbug, Lindy Hop and various other names in different parts of the country... Swing is the newer title"(1959)."
Etymology
The term jitterbug comes from an early 20th-century slang term used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the "jitters" (i.e., delirium tremens).fact: date=July 2007 The term became associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. In popular culture, it became generalized to mean a swing dancer (e.g., you were a jitterbug), a type of swing dance (e.g., you danced the jitterbug), or the act of swing dancing (e.g., you were jitterbugging).
Cab Calloway's 1935 recording of “Call of the Jitter Bug (Jitterbug) 1 2 and the film “Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party” 3 popularized use of the word “jitterbug”, and created a strong association between Calloway and jitterbug. Lyrics to “Call of the Jitter Bug” clearly demonstrate the association between the word jitterbug and the consumption of alcohol.
- If you'd like to be a jitter bug,
- First thing you must do is get a jug,
- Put whiskey, wine and gin within,
- And shake it all up and then begin.
- Grab a cup and start to toss,
- You are drinking jitter sauce!
- Don't you worry, you just mug,
- And then you'll be a jitter bug! 4
Youngsters were jitterbugging in the aisles as Benny Goodman played the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1936, making headlines from coast to coast.
Writing of the Savoy Ballroom, dance critic John Martin, of The New York Times, wrote the following:
