Trickster Gods and rapparees (1650-1900)

Buck-and-wing (turn of the century)

Over-the-top and in-the-trenches (teens)

Simply full of jazz (twenties)

Swing time (thirties)

Jumpin' jive (forties)

Beat, bebop, birth of the cool (fifties)

Tap happenings (sixties)

Nostalgia, and all that tap (seventies)

Black and blue (eighties)

Noise and funk (nineties)

Hoofing in heels (millennium).