She listened to both the songs, then raised her hand. "I like the guitar in Johnny Be Good. It drags the listener in with its upbeat tempo." she said. "I don't really like Flasom Prison Blues. The singers voice kind of annoys me."

Sarah's hand shot in the air as Professor Dumont asked which they liked the best. "I like the first two,Sir.They have a more uptempo beat and you can dance to them better!"
Yep she danced at home to these songs.Her mother was a huge Elvis fan,listening to all the old songs she'd been given.Now she was getting Sarah hooked to.
Then Dumont produced two more songs,one of which she didn't know...'Folsom Prison Blues'? Strange name for a song, she thought as she sat listening to it.Not bad,though.
When Johnny B.Goode started Sarah had to clamp her lips together hard to stop herself from singing along.Oh this was going to be a hard lesson or that reason....she wanted to join in!

"Here are a few more," Antonio said.

At the Hop by Danny and the Juniors

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters

"Professor, I like Will you still love me tomorrow and johnny be good,my parents met at a johnny cash concert" she thought of her parents and she felt homesick for the first time.

"Sir, a favorite artist of mine and my grandmother's was the king himself Elvis Presley, but we enjoyed all of these songs" Ash said raising her hand

"That's great, all of you have different choices," Antonio said. "We're going to be talking more about the music you're hearing, but right now I want to address something some of you have mentioned, how to dance to this music. I can tell you all that in the 50's they had a dance called the jitterbug, and you can learn how to do it. Would you like a demonstration?"

Jitterbug lessons

Jitterbug....yes that's what she meant not bug-jetters, she smiled with that thought and raised her hand, "Didn't they do this at sog or sock or something hops?"

"Ah, Evangeline, you've noticed something very important! This is what makes rock and roll such a unique style. Even today, there are wide variances and differences in rock. You've got top 40, heavy metal, goth, punk, light rock and many many other styles. On top of that, rock itself came from many different roots, which is also responsible for its diversity. We'll be talking about that in just a moment, too," Antonio promised. "And yes, Satine, the dances where jitterbugs were done were called sock hops."

What a strange name. Jitterbug! Kiri stared at the Muggles' movements, becoming more confused by the minute. At least she thought she understood now why this kind of music was called rock and roll. The name really was a perfect description, and the effect of the music wasn't lost on her classmates, either. Kiri caught several of them tapping their feet or shifting from side to side in their seats.

But they wouldn't have to dance this... jitterbug themselves, would they? Kiri glanced at the professor in alarm. The movements, unfortunately, looked simple enough that they would be able to emulate them. She'd never danced in her life, but had a sneaking suspicion that, if she were to try it, she'd discover she had two (or possibly more) left feet.

She raised her hand again: "Professor, how did the Muggles come up with this dance?"

"Professor, what was the dance that elvis use to do?" she was so interested in the subject.

Side...

Side...

Rock step!

Side...

Side...

Rock step!

Okay, well, that didn't seem too difficult to remember, now did it? Raising her hand, Anna asked, "Professor are we going to dance the Jitterbug today?" That'd be a fun little addition to the class, even though Anna knew they probably had many more things to learn today other than getting up and cutting a rug across the floor. "It also says in our textbook where 'sock-hops', gym dances, and home basement dance parties were popular. What's a sock hop?"

That is sooooo cool!
Side,side,rock step.Side,side,rock step.
Sarah played it out in her head,she'd never actually seen it performed before and had the sudden urge to get up herself and try.Somethng which might not go down to well with Dumont...or anybody else.
Instead she looked around the room at everyone else.They all seemed to be enjoying this lesson as much as she was.
God I love Muggle Studies!

Yes, Dagobert thought to himself happily, finally a change to grab Dem and dance with her.
Dagobert was hoping that maybe his moves might impress her. Why he wanted to impress her, he had no idea. He walked up to Dem and offered his hand.
'Let's dance!' he said pulling her up, not particularily bothered about what people would say, 'You too will be astounded by my amazing-ness.'
With that he took her to a spot where it would be easier to dance and started imitating the moves from the demonstration.
'Having fun?' he asked with a smirk.

Dem got up and started dancing the jitterbug with Dagobert. "This is so much fun!" Great lesson she smiled to herself. "I'm having lots of fun." she gave him a grin. "So I'm guessing your not mad at me?" she whispered to him.

YAY! Muuuusic. Despite him being a muggle-born, he'd never even seen that instrument or whatever it was that just projected music out of it. Sure there were ones in the muggle world that were exactly like it but this one was like, kewler... because it was bigger... and cooler. Yeah. He couldn't really explain it but the record player looooked old. He sometimes liked old stuff. While listening to the music, he tapped his fingers on the desk. Ahhhh music. Who didn't like music?

Music-haters of course, but people who hated music were absolutely and completely had no taste in ANYTHING. Yup. Mmhmm.

Now it was the Jitterbug. He'd heard of it before but never really did it himself, so he started nodding his head when Anna asked if they could learn how to do the Jitterbug today. But just in case, he started writing down the instructions... to practice later and all. Yuuuuup.

Remembering some other dance moves that were really, really old, he raised his hand up. "Professah, what other dance moves were popular in the 1950s? Could the Chicken Dance possibly be one of them?" OOOH. The Chicken Dance! But all he could remember was that it was Swiss-ish and... while still raising his hand up, "Did rock 'n roll affect other countries besides the United States?"

Brant laughed at the thought of him doing this "Jitterbug". Did the Professor really want him to dance. He hoped not. Watching the other students Brant thought "what the heck" he got up and tried to do this Jitterbug dance and as he was dancing he was counting,

step one,
step two.....

Jitterbugging over to the Professor, for he need to ask a question."Erm Professor did every muggle dance like this, it seems soo werid?"

How cool would it be to have a sock hop for their muggle studies final!! Like the final they had last term. That final was awesome!! And Paris rocked it!!

She giggled at the jitterbug. That would be cool to do. "Sir didn't they do a dance called the Jackie Gleeson at sock hops too?" She asked with a raised hand.

Satine watched as many others jumped up and gave it a try, so she decided what the heck and jumped up to do the jitterbug with some students nearby..."Professor, this is a blast...we should host a sock hop with poodle skirts and milk shakes and hamburgers like the book says." she said as she giggled and raised her hand.

As Professor Dumont began playing the songs, Rachel fell silent and relaxed back into her chair, waiting expectantly for the familiar sense of happiness that usually came whenever she heard a song that she liked. What she had not expected, however, was to feel sad. Sad? Why am I sad?! I love these songs, I used to listen to them all the time when I was-

Ahh. Rachel froze as the memories came flooded in; of her parent's house, the music room, the evenings they had spent together with Rachel dancing to the beats of the old old, catchy songs. Rachel sighed and stared at the table in front of her, completely oblivious to her surroundings. She could hear the music, and she could see the memories in front of her eyes. That was it.

Chris watched his eyes became wide. Dancing??? He wanted them to dance. No way he didn't want that. Could He? Alright he could but there was once itsy bitsy teenie weenie problem with that. Chris could not dance to save his life.This should be great...if they did happen to dance.

Dagobert's eyes softened when he heard what she whispered.
'No, of course not,' he whispered back, 'I was just being a jerk, sorry.'
He then spun around and for added effect, leaned her back a little while placing a hand on the small of her back. He pulled her back up and then gave her bow.
'Twas wonderful dancing with you,' he said in an exaggerated posh tone, 'I hope to have this pleasure again.'
He looked around and noticed how others had gotten up and started dancing. It had certainly was certainly becoming a fun class.

"Haha" Miranda laughed and giggled as she saw the other students dancing in the classroom. It seemed like alot of fun.
Finally, she stood up and began to turn around, flailing her arms in the air, this was like her own style of dancing. "Wooo!"
Now she tried to side step but ended up looking like she was tap dancing in a weird way. "You can rock and you can roll...hmhmhmhmmmm" Miranda hummed along with the song.