<Ul> <Li> Banjo </Li> <Li> piano </Li> <Li> small bands </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Th> Derivative forms </Th> <Td> Ragtime </Td> </Tr> <P> The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get - togethers on black slave plantations after emancipation in the Southern United States . Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline - walk", and the "walk - around". At the conclusion of a performance of the original form of the dance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, an enormous cake was awarded to the winning couple . Thereafter it was performed in minstrel shows, exclusively by men until the 1890s . The inclusion of women in the cast "made possible all sorts of improvisations in the Walk, and the original was soon changed into a grotesque dance" which became very popular across the country . </P> <P> The cakewalk was influenced by the "ring shout", which survived from the 18th into the 20th century . </P>

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