The document provides an outline about the Harlem Shake dance trend that spread worldwide in 2012/2013. It discusses how the dance started on the internet showing a masked dancer starting to dance crazily while others ignore them, and then everyone joins in. It notes how the dance became a distraction tool in schools but also an expression. The outline also discusses how the dance trend became extremely politicized in Tunisia, with politicians reacting violently which only fueled the fire and led to national action. It concludes that while the Harlem Shake fad may fade, new fads will replace it, and that even benign events in post-revolution Tunisia become topics of political contestation and sometimes violence.

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HARLEM SHAKE
Academic year: 2012/2013

2. OUTLINE
Introduction
The Harlem shake
Rocking the body politic
Conclusion
Popular reaction

3. Introduction
• The Harlem shake dance is a trend which invaded the hole
world.
• Since then, it does a ravage in schools not like a distraction
tool but like an expression one.
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4. The Harlem shake
•It is a dance diffused on internet that shows stupid dancer masked
who begins dancing to the tune
•While everyone else there doesn't seen to even care
•Then suddenly everyone also seems to be doing this crazy dance.
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5. Rocking the body politic
•We are witnessing the extreme politicisation of global entertainment.
•In tunisia, The violent reaction of politicians, is only adding the fuel to
The fire.
•It developed a national action.
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6. Popular reaction
Tunisian politics are also dancing the Harlem shake on their way

7. Conclusion
• The harlem shake may fade away, as fads
tend to do.
• But another one will soon come along.
• The mill of politics in post revolutionnarey
Tunisia none and nothing.
• Tuning the most begnign events into
fodder for political contestation and even
violence.
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