mechanical dance suited to the industrial time in its moods of 
pomp and circumstance. In contrast, the Twist is a cool, 
involved and chatty form of improvised gesture. The jazz of the 
period of the hot new media of movie and radio was hot jazz. 
Yet jazz of itself tends to be a casual dialogue form of dance 
quite lacking in the repetitive and mechanical forms of the 
waltz. Cool jazz came in quite naturally after the first impact of 
radio and movie had been absorbed.

     In the special Russian issue of Life  magazine for 
September 13, 1963, it is mentioned that in Russian 
restaurants and night clubs, “though the Charleston is 
tolerated, the Twist is taboo.” All this is to say that a country 
in the process of industrialization is inclined to regard hot jazz 
as consistent with its developing programs. The cool and 
involved form of the Twist, on the other hand, would strike