Cake Walk Dance Short Essay

Explain why this particular piece “caught your ear.” What are the piece’s unique characteristics?Cake WalkEarly film of a “cakewalk” dance – a form of social dance that began on plantations among the slaves and became part of minstrel acts later on. Please read pages 212-213 in your book regarding the development of minstrel music. Be sure to listen then to Debussy’s Golliwog’s Cakewalk for perspective on global influence of American forms.