Jive
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- Jive (dance)Jive (dance)In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...
, a ballroom dance style from the 1940s - A variety of related dances including Lindy HopLindy HopThe Lindy Hop is an American social dance, from the swing dance family. It evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based...
, Jitterbug, and Rock and Roll (dance)Rock and Roll (dance)Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll is a very athletic, competitive form of dance that originated from lindy hop. Unlike lindy hop, however, it is a choreographed dance designed for performance. It is danced by both couples and groups, either all-female or 4-8 couples together... - skip jiveSkip jiveA British dance, descended from the jazz dances of the 1930s and 40s jive and ultimately from the Lindy Hop. Danced to trad jazz music, was popular in England in the 1950s and 1960s in jazz clubs in London; notably Jazzshows and the Ken Colyer club...
, a dance. - Hand jiveHand jiveThe Hand jive is a dance particularly associated with rock and roll and rhythm and blues music of the 1950s. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following and/or imitating the percussion instruments. It resembles a highly elaborate version of...
, a kind of dance game from the 1950s - Modern JiveModern JiveModern Jive is a dance style derived from Swing, Lindy Hop, Rock and Roll, Salsa and others, the main innovation being to simplify the footwork - by removing syncopation such as chasse. The term French Jive is occasionally used instead, reflecting the origins of the style...
or French Jive, a dance style from the 1980s - A type of two wheeler from TVSTVS-Television, Tele-Networking:* TVS Electronics, Computer peripherals manufacturing company from India* TVS Motors, motor manufacturing company from India* TVS, aka Television Sydney, free TV channel in Sydney, Australia...
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Rockabilly Jive, a dance from the 1950s part of the swing dances.
Other Uses
Jive may also be used for:- JIVEJIVEThe Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe was formed in 1993 by the European Consortium for VLBI and is a member of the European VLBI Network . Very Long Baseline Interferometry is a type of astronomical interferometry used in radio astronomy...
, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy - Jive (dialect), African American Vernacular EnglishAfrican American Vernacular EnglishAfrican American Vernacular English —also called African American English; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular , or Black Vernacular English —is an African American variety of American English...
- Jive filterJive filterJive, also known as the Jive Filter, is a novelty computer program that converts plain English to a comic dialect known as "jive", a parody of African American Vernacular English. Some versions of the filter were adapted to parody other forms of English speech, such as valspeak, cockney, geordie,...
, an English-to-Jive automatic translation program - Jive (publisher)Jive (publisher)is a Japanese publishing company in Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan and was established on May 12, 2003. In 2004, the company sold its stock to Poplar Publishing and now Jive is an affiliate of that company....
, a Japanese publishing company - Jive JonesJive JonesJive Jones, JIVEjones, or simply JIVE is a singer, songwriter, producer, model, & actor born & raised in Miami, Florida. He released his debut solo album Me, Myself, & I on Jive Records. Singles released from the album include the title track & "I Belong", a guitar driven love song.Jive is...
, an American pop singer and producer - jiveJivaIn Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is a living being, or more specifically, the immortal essence of a living organism which survives physical death. It has a very similar usage to atma, but whereas atma refers to "the cosmic self", jiva is used to denote an individual 'living entity' or 'living...
in Hinduism: individual higher/holy spiritHoly SpiritHoly Spirit is a term introduced in English translations of the Hebrew Bible, but understood differently in the main Abrahamic religions.While the general concept of a "Spirit" that permeates the cosmos has been used in various religions Holy Spirit is a term introduced in English translations of...
a.k.a. oversoulOversoulOversoul may refer to:* Over-soul, a concept by Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced in his 1841 essay by the same name.* Over Soul, a fictitious shamanic technique in the anime and manga series Shaman King.... - JIVE MagazineJIVE MagazineJIVE Magazine is a popular-entertainment, technology, and urban-culture magazine. It publishes features, reviews, editorials, photo galleries, and art productions on the web as well as quarterly in print. The web edition is updated frequently. JIVE Magazine launched its website in August 2000...
, an entertainment/technology/urban culture magazine - Jive RecordsJive RecordsJive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
, an American record label- Jive ElectroJive ElectroJive Electro was a sublabel of the Zomba Group's Jive Records noted for releasing albums by Groove Armada, Hardknox, and Tangerine Dream as well as few remixes for the Madchester band The Stone Roses.The label was largely active between 1984 and 1987...
, a sublabel of the record label
- Jive Electro
- Jive SoftwareJive SoftwareJive Software is a software company in the social business software industry based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR, Boulder, CO, Frankfurt, Germany, Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, UK.-Products:...
, a software company vending enterprise social networkingEnterprise social networkingEnterprise social networking focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities. Enterprise social networking is often a facility of enterprise social software , which is essentially social software used in "enterprise" ... - Swing (genre)Swing (genre)Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States...
- JIVE, an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information TechnologyJaypee Institute of Information TechnologyJaypee Institute of Information Technology , located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India is a Deemed University offering programs in technical education at undergraduate and postgraduate level.-Academics:...
in India - Jive, form of sign language used in William Gibson's NeuromancerNeuromancerNeuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy...