black bottom
Jazz-era Charleston rival
Black bottom names a few distinct things united by the image of darkness at the base.
It's a lively American dance from the 1920s, characterized by slapping the backside.
It also refers to a dessert—typically a pie or cupcake with a chocolate layer on the bottom beneath a contrasting filling like cream cheese.
In some American cities, Black Bottom was a historically Black neighborhood, often in low-lying areas near rivers.
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- dance floorSpace designated for movement
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- jazz age1920s American cultural era
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
roaring twenties · 1920s · flapper · ragtime · swing · Harlem · cake walk · ballroom · shimmy · stomp · pie · mud pie · chocolate · crust · pie crust · dessert · mud · river
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
- danceballet, breaking, folk dances, b-boying, folk dance
black bottomminuet
Formal 18th-century dance
waltz · pavane · court dance · Vienna waltz · cotillion
black, bottom, blacks, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness