Hi Aziyade, I think American dancers of all types do have respectful understanding when it comes to choosing music in which to dance to.
Popular music-Hip-hop, Rock, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Latin are the basis for most of the social dancing seen at parties and clubs. The music is free-spirited so pretty much anything goes.
Liturgical Music- Black Gospel,Christian,Country Gospel and Christian Rock- dance appears to be more restrained. More swaying and trance meditative steps...of course the idea is to commune on a spiritual plane. You won't see any hip thrusts done to this music
Folk Music-Blues,Cajun/Creole, Appalachian- people dancing together either in specific line dances or couples out on the floor. There seems to be a greater communal sense when dancing to this music...people are happy.
What I've seen within the BD community is a lack of understanding of how different types of music will dictate the appropriate choice of dance. What we know even on an intuitive level about 'Yankee' music is not transferred well to non-indigenous music.
Yasmine
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