<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> In the 1981 article "The Cakewalk: A Study in Stereotype and Reality", Brooke Baldwin cites "an almost exhaustive compilation of those accounts which have been found so far" with representations in the white press as early as 1863 . This compilation consists of eyewitness accounts by emancipated slaves from Virginia and Georgia recorded by WPA researchers in the 1930s, along with secondhand accounts from other sources . Baldwin notes that "when the researchers of the Federal Writer's Project of the WPA interviewed aged ex-slaves in the 1930s, there was no longer any need to suppress information about the happier moments of slave life" such as when slaves had been able to covertly mock their owners without getting punished, through the signals and expression of dance . </P>

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