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The terms ""folk dance"" and ""vernacular dance"", objectively, mean the same thing. IMHO, either is ""correct"" as a description of Lindy Hop. However, ""vernacular jazz dance"" is, in my experience, the label Lindy dancers and scholars choose to apply. Lindy is a ""jazz dance"" in the sense of Marshall & Jean Stearns' book Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (a sense that is not well-reflected in the current ""Jazz Dance"" article on Wikipedia).  - szarka

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