Title: Laxed Siren Beat

General Information about Item:

• Customary Lore, dance routine
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States
• Informant: S.K.
• Date Collected: 10-20-20

Informant Data:

• S.K. was born in December of 1998 and has lived in Rockville, Maryland her whole life. She is a current senior at Dartmouth College studying Biology and Anthropology. She is white, specifically Ukrainian, and a first generation American.

Contextual Data:

• S.K. downloaded TikTok in the summer of 2020 following the coronavirus quarantine. She considers herself barely a user of the app, spending less than fifteen minutes on the app a day. However, she still enjoys watching TikTok dances and has even learned some of them from repeatedly seeing them on her For You Page.

Item:

• This is a simple dance incorporating three hand raises throughout the course of this ten second audio. Step one: Take your right hand from your left shoulder, to the right shoulder, raise it in the air, and then move side to side. Step two: Take your left hand from your right shoulder, to the left shoulder, raise it in the air, and then move side to side. Step three: Take both hands and repeat the actions of step one and step two at the same time.

Dance Example: RPReplay_Final1603309353

Informant’s Comments:

• Super easy to learn. Didn’t even try to.

Collector’s Comments:

• This dance was super fun and an easy way for non-dancers to participate in a TikTok dance.

Collector’s Name: Savannah Miller

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Lore
• Dance
• Internet Folklore