Origin
Gumboot dancing was conceived by black miners in South Africa as an alternative to drumming—which authorities restricted one of the other reason for gumboot dancing was for the miners in South Africa as they worked they sang. gumboot dancing has now become a worldknown dance,in schools kids perform the dance The boots were a solution to a problem of often flooded gold mines in which men otherwise stood in knee-deep water toiling at their work stations.
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