SongEra: Slavery

Juba (Pattin' Juba / Hambone)

c. 1853(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist
Traditional
Genre
body percussion

A plantation-era African American body-percussion dance/rhythm practice — slapping and patting the body to make rhythm after drums were banned — more a practice than a fixed song; earliest firmly documented in Solomon Northup's 1853 description.

Sources & citations

  1. 1.en.wikipedia.orgwikipedia
  2. 2.pages.stolaf.eduwebsite
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