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Transcription: [00:13:36]
{SPEAKER name="WIGGINS"}
Alright so, um until the uhh college steppers come, uh then you can be at a relaxed state, and turn around and look at the dancers or something like.

[00:13:49]
Do you have the time? What time do I? 1:21 well what the heck. 1:18, 1:21.

[00:13:55]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I don't think they're gonna make it today.

[00:13:58]
{SPEAKER name="WIGGINS"}
But we will be here on this stage, uhh, I think just about everyday at this time.

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{SPEAKER name="WIGGINS"}
We have down on the mall the, the grand generation looking at the, the old traditions.

[00:14:12]
Uhh, but there is also a new, a cutting edge sort of thing, and these young men represent that particular angle of it just as the, uh, performance on stage does.

[00:14:23]
They are collegiates, they're all students at the University of Pennsylvania, and they are bearer of the tradition of stepping, a particular type of dancing, and so forth that, uhh, is indigenous, or is very popular with black college students.

[00:14:41]
I have taught at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, uh, Texas College in Tyler, Texas, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and I have visited all over and what they do is not peculiar to them.

[00:14:55]
Uhh, I might add that what is involved here are these culture imperatives and I'll shut up and let them talk. One improvisation, you've got to be able to shift, change, to meet the mood.

[00:15:09]
In fact, they do not have a regular set routine by which they go on. They- I've been with them for a week and they've changed it just about every day. You could not write it down.

[00:15:19]
So there, in that, this regard they're much like Earl Garner, who when he give, gave a concert would never write out what he was going to do, he would play as he felt inspired to play.

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Or Mahalia Jackson, you would not have a program that would list the songs that Mahalia would play. It would be dependent upon how she would receive.

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Secondly, there is a great deal of friendly competition.