Lindy hop, Basketball & Music: Jump of cultural importance

Found an interesting article today that fellow Lindy Hoppers may want to check out. Below is an abstract. The author: Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
Title: JUMP FOR JOY: THE JUMP TROPE IN AFRICAN AMERICA, 1937-1941.
This article discusses the crucial cultural importance during 1937-41 of jumping, a mode of expression powerfully celebrated in African American dance, music, and basketball. Originating as an emblem of freedom, creativity, and joy in African American culture, the jump became a positive symbol of upward social movement. At the advent of the Lindy hop, or jitterbug, in the 1930's, dances often immediately followed basketball games as part of a single event, a pairing that perhaps explains why the jump was a common element in both. Jump tunes evolved from the African American jazz tradition, with Count Basie's 1937 "One O'Clock Jump" beginning the jump craze in swing bands across the country. As the music made people want to jump, jumps or aerials soon became part of the popular Lindy hop. The jump shot in basketball grew from the fast-break style of play that was first allowed in African American college games before being accepted by white teams across the United States. A long-standing part of African American tradition, the jump first became internationally recognized as African American with the popularity of the 1830 song "Jump Jim Crow" and its accompanying dance. The song and jumping dance faded out even as "Jim Crow" came to signify white supremacy, but Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy" reclaimed the jump as a protest against Jim Crow in 1941.