Editing Jitterbug (section)

{{Short description|Dance style associated with swing dance}}
{{Other uses}}
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{{Infobox dance
| name             = Jitterbug
| image            = Jitterbug Wolcott FSA.jpg
| caption          = Jitterbugging at a [[juke joint]], 1939. Photo by [[Marion Post Wolcott]]
| genre            = [[Swing (dance)|Swing]]
}}
'''Jitterbug''' is a generalized term used to describe [[Swing (dance)|swing dancing]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bellaballroom.com/dance-lessons/swing-dance/jitterbug/|title=Jitterbug}}</ref> It is often synonymous with the [[lindy hop]] dance<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenroom-productions.com/the-call-of-the-jitterbug|title = The Call of the Jitterbug}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
| last = Manning
| first = Frankie
| author-link = Frankie Manning
| author2 = Cynthia R. Millman
| title = Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop
| year = 2007
| publisher = Temple University Press
| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| isbn = 978-1-59213-563-9
| page = 238
}}</ref> but might include elements of the [[Jive (dance)|jive]], [[east coast swing]], [[collegiate shag]], [[Charleston (dance)|charleston]], [[Balboa (dance)|balboa]] and other swing dances.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bellaballroom.com/dance-lessons/swing-dance/jitterbug/|title=Jitterbug}}</ref>

Swing dancing originated in the [[African-American]] communities of [[New York City]] in the early 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bellaballroom.com/dance-lessons/swing-dance/jitterbug/|title=Jitterbug}}</ref> Many nightclubs had a whites-only or blacks-only policy due to [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]], however the [[Savoy Ballroom]] in [[Harlem]] had a no-discrimination policy which allowed whites and blacks to dance together<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bellaballroom.com/dance-lessons/swing-dance/jitterbug/|title=Jitterbug}}</ref> and it was there that the [[Lindy Hop]] dance flourished,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenroom-productions.com/the-call-of-the-jitterbug|title = The Call of the Jitterbug}}</ref> started by dancers such as [[George Snowden]] and [[Frank Manning]]. The term jitterbug was originally a ridicule used by black patrons to describe whites who started to dance the Lindy Hop, as they were dancing faster and jumpier than was intended, like "jittering bugs",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dancefans.cultu.be/jitterbug-and-lindy-hop|title = Jitterbug and Lindy Hop}}</ref> although it quickly lost its negative connotation as the more erratic version caught on. Both the Lindy Hop and the "jitterbug" became popular outside Harlem when the dance was featured in Hollywood films and [[Broadway theatre]], starring the performance group [[Whitey's Lindy Hoppers]].