The Turkey Trot dance (movie clip)

The Turkey Trot has been described as a “simple and awkward“ dance that exploded around 1909 that allowed “close personal contact, a novelty at the time.“ (Popular Music in America) “...a wicked and scandalous, infamous and immoral, bawdy and obscene song and dance, or act, corrupting the morals of the public and youth, and too filthy, obscene and immoral to be in decency further described...“
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