[2] The Soco Gap Dancers performed at the White House in 1939, which caused an uptick in the popularity of team clogging.
[5] The term "buck", as in buck dancing, is traceable to the West Indies and is derived from a Tupi Indian word denoting a frame or hurdle for drying and smoking meat; the original po bockarau or buccaneers were sailors who ate smoked meat and fish after the manner of the Indians.
[8] Eventually the term came to describe Irish immigrant sailors whose jig dance was known as 'the buck'.
"[citation needed] One source states that buck dancing was the earliest combination of the basic shuffle and tap steps performed to syncopated rhythms in which accents are placed not on the straight beat, as with the jigs, clogs, and other dances of European origin, but on the downbeat or offbeat, a style derived primarily from the rhythms of African tribal music.
Many folk festivals and fairs utilize dancing clubs or teams to perform both Buck and regular clogging for entertainment.