bump (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:15 PM -0400 8/18/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>FWIW. the name, "the bump," was resurrected in the '70's as the name
>of a dance that consisted of literally the rhythmic bumping of a
>random part of one's own body against a random part of one's partner's
>body, e.g. head against knee. IIRC, both Joe Tex [tEk] and Rufus
>Thomas had records out celebrating this dance.
>
>Sometimes, a song is written and a dance is made up to go with it (the
>twist) or a dance is made up and a song is written to go with it (the
>bump). Most often, dances are up made that have nothing to do with any
>one rhythm (the seven-step, the cheek-to-cheek bucket o' blood, in
>which latter a variant of the OED 1946 definition of _bump_ was
>prominently featured: the rhythmic thrusting of the girl's mons
>Veneris against the boy's mons pubis).
>
Seems like that last one might have been called the montes (with
apologies to Lola).

LH

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