Note: Text from 'Step It Down' reads: "The rural African American community has had its own share of conflict of proper behavior. The whole area of dance has been especially tense because the direct conflict between ancient African cultural patterns, in which dance is a routine part of almost all activity, and European Protestantism, in which dance is considered by all except a few dissenting sects to be both worldly and potentially lustful. On the level of children's activity, both white and black communities have attempted to regard singing games as playing, not dancing, and therefore allowable without many restrictions to the young. The children of both communities have in turn, fashioned their pastimes in direct celebration of the adult world they saw around them. In this context one can see the irony that Mrs. Jones points out- how pleasurable it is to be able to demonstrate explicitly and exactly just what it is you disapprove of, in this case 'balling the jack'."