People often say “you know, tap dance is a dying art form”, but they never mention why it is dying, or from what. Has tap dance been wounded in some way? Poisoned? Could it be…sabatogey! Old cartoon references aside, there are many theories about the decline of tap dance from it’s position as the United States’ most popular dance form in the 1930s to a a relatively niche effort in the 1970s. Host Tristan Bruns goes over the various theories of what ails tap dance and even presents one of his own.

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