Contents: "Gimme de kneebone bent" : music and dance in Africa -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : the style of African American vernacular dance -- Overture to vocal choreography : vernacular dance on "stage" (slavery. 1950) -- "Let the punishment fit the crime" : the vocal choreography of Cholly Atkins -- The history of bands : from African rituals to New Orleans : second lines: the FAMU marching 100 : historical overview--colonial America to World. War I -- The FAMU marching 100 : from ballpark bleachers to national TV -- African American secret societies : remebering the past and facing the future fraternities and sororities : "a way of remembering" -- Stepping : regeneration. through dance in African American fraternities and sororities : regeneration through dance