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During the development of the musical genre rock and roll, dances to go with the music were also created. From swing, which came into being around 1920, Lindy Hop emerged, the first partner dance ever to feature acrobatic elements. Lindy Hop was modified around 1940 to suit faster music, creating the style known as boogie woogie. With rock and roll music coming into fashion around 1955, its adherents converted boogie woogie to the even more athletic rock and roll dance.

During the 1950's, swing dancing (Lindy and Jitterbug) was unsuccessfully to be renamed 'Rock and Roll'. This renaming of the dance shows that even the early dancers were aware that the dance could hold its own to other styles of music and was not music dependant, it could, would and was, done to other styles of music, not just 'Big Band', but the name of the dance didn't need to change except through marketing.

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