Talk:Shimmy

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Kappa Alpha Psi

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Members of the historically African-American fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi often use a form of this dance to distinguish themselves in casual, social environments. The members form a single-file line and shimmy side-to-side in unison, often to the beat of background music. [1]

The quoted reference speaks ast lengths about the "cane step", but not a single phrase about shimmy. `'mikka (t) 19:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shimmy is also a mechanical vibration.

Here is a link for example:

http://jvc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/1/45 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.49.170.140 (talk) 18:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shimmy partner dance

According to my (Swedish) dictionary "Nationalencyklopedin", shimmy isn't just a dance move but a partner dance of American origin. It is supposed to have been introduced to Sweden in 1921, and was at least in my country often referred to as "shimmy-fox" and considered a version of foxtrot - please forgive us, we didn't master many African-American dances at the time! Anyway, I guess this shimmy partner dance also should have an article. Whether or not it contained any shimmy dance moves I can not tell, but of course the first guess would be it did. // habj (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary mentions this meaning of the word: wikt:shimmy. // habj (talk) 17:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origins

Doesn't the shimmy probably originate in sub-Saharan Africa (as it states in the Ballin' the Jack article)? 98.123.38.211 (talk) 21:12, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shoulder shaking (which is actually boobs shaking) was widespread in many cultures, jus as ass wiggling and foot stomping. And whatever was stated in Ballin the Jack was misinterpreted from the sources cited; I fixed it. --Altenmann >talk 21:42, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]