Curt Sachs [1881- ] World History of the Dance, (Trans, Bessie Schönberg) The Norton Library: N.Y., 1937 (1965), 1912
"Since the Brazilian maxixe of 1890 and the cakewalk of 1903 broke up the pattern of turns and glides that dominated the European round dances, our generation has adopted with disquieting rapidity a successsion of Central American dances, in an effort to replace what has been lost to modern Europe: multiplicity, power, and expressiveness of movement. to the point of grotesque distortion of the entire body . . . and in 1912 the fox trot with its wealth of figures.