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The '''Java''' is a [[dance]] developed in France in the early part of the 20th century. The origin of its name is uncertain, but it probably evolved from the [[mazurka]], and it was mainly performed to the [[bal-musette]] [[Music of France|music]] popular between 1910 and 1960 in France.

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The '''Java''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒa.va|lang}}) is a [[dance]] which was developed in France in the early part of the 20th century. The origin of its name is uncertain, but it probably evolved from the [[mazurkavalse]], and it was mainly performed to the [[bal-musette]] [[Music of France|music]] popular between 1910 and 1960 in France.

It is a fast [[waltz]], with the dancers very close together; in fact, some men place their hands on their partner's [[buttocks]] while dancing it. This of course led some of the more respectable bal-musette dance halls to ban the java.

Mainly performed in French [[bal-musette]] between 1910 and 1960, the dance was largely conceived due to popular demand for a new type of waltz, in particular, one which was easier, faster, more sensual, and would not require a dance hall as large as those typically used for waltzes.

There is also a [[nightclub]] in [[Paris]], ''La Java'', which had its heyday in the 1930s and remains open today, but with modern musics

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== Titles ==

* [[Edith PiafMistinguett]] - ''L'accordéonisteLa java'', 1923

* [[Georgette PlanaGeorgius]] - ''laLa javaplus bleuebath des javas'', 1925

* [[Alibert]] and [[Gaby Sims]] - ''Un petit cabanon'', 1935

* [[Edith Piaf]] - ''La java de cézigue'', 1936

* [[Georgette Plana]] - ''La Java bleue'', 1938

* [[Darcelys]] - ''Une partie de pétanque'', 1941

* [[Edith Piaf]] - ''[[L'Accordéoniste]]'', 1942

* [[Boris Vian]] - ''La Java des bombes atomiques'', 1955

* [[Léo Ferré]] - ''Java partout'', 1957

* [[Claude Nougaro]] - ''Le Jazz et la Java'', 1962

* [[Serge Gainsbourg]] - ''[[La Javanaise]]'', 1963

* [[Michel Sardou]] - ''La Java de Broadway'', 1977

* [[TC Matic]] - ''Le Java'', 1982

==On film==

A java is danced during a key scene at a working class café in [[Jean Vigo]]'s film ''[[L'Atalante]]'' (1934). Composer [[Maurice Jaubert]] arranged his java melody for [[player piano]]; it recurs later in the soundtrack as a refrain for [[accordion]].

==References==

In Edith Piaf's song L'Accordeoniste, she sings about the dance :

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* Henri Joannis Deberne, ''Danser en société'', Christine Bonneton editor, 3/1999, Paris {{ISBN|2-86253-229-0}} p. 144-145

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''Elle écoute la Java'' (She listens to the Java)<br />

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''Mais elle ne la danse pas'' (but she doesn't dance it) <br />

''Elle ne regarde même pas la piste'' (She doesn't even look at the dance floor) <br />

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