Carrot Cakewalk
by
Kitty Allen
Preview
Full tune available on Spotify, Pandora Plus & in most digital music stores.
Preview
Full tune available on Spotify, Pandora Plus & in most digital music stores.
For lovers of desserts and for all those who yield to temptation by enthusiastically consuming them with reckless abandon. A semi-traditional cakewalk-style dance tune composed & performed by Kitty Allen on harp, midi-keyboard, & laptop.
While cakewalks were originally dances created by slaves on plantations, slave owners found the music to be amusing. They picked up the dancing style for themselves in the 1890s, thus providing a curious cultural exchange of whites imitating blacks imitating whites.
Known for sounding bouncy and choppy, the heavy off-beats caused physicians to predict epileptic seizures to those who participated. Clergy projected the ruin of society & decline of the human race. They may have been correct.
As seen in the photos below, there was additional enjoyment to be experienced from the composition and performance of this tune.
© - Kitty Allen 2017