While it's impossible to pinpoint an exact origin, Take Our Word For It notes that clapping for praise has been around since at least the Middle Ages. Early mentions of the practice coincide with the advent of public performances, usually by traveling bands of actors in town squares.
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Why do we applaud a great performance? Why not stand on our heads or click our heels instead? Who started this hand-clapping stuff? ... As to clapping's association with audience approval, Jay Fisher, a classics professor at Yale University, dates the custom to at least ... Inside the Heretofore Silent History of Clapping...
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Recent series of guest lecture in a class left me wondering about clapping. Thing is that while many students are disinterested during the lecture, they wake up just at right moment to clap: at introduction of speaker and at end of lecture.
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A consideration of the phenomenon of clapping in human culture and history, for aplause and for other purposes. ... The noisy action of clapping, along with all its accompaniments and variants – cheering, stamping, whistling, booing, hissing, catcalling - would form a central part of such a history. In its absence,
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Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted ... Ireland, on 02/08/2008, -0/+2And she thinks all that clapping is going to get our *seal* of approval? Pull the other Mrs. Flip Floppy ... Hillary Clinton's Long History Of Insane Clapping watch!
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Information about the Radio 4 factual programme Clappers: A History of Applause ... Discuss applause on H2G2; The history of applause, from The Toronto Star; Audience participation from ConcertoNet.com; Report on clapping from Birkbeck University;
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History Politics and Society question: Where does hand clapping originated? This is said to be a sudden reaction to a happy news. this was a mere acknowledgement of news given by a courtier to the King, ... When did clapping start? When did clapping begin? History of hand clapping? Where did clapping start?
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The action of clapping after a performance is something we learned somewhere along the way. Since it is not universal, it may simply be something that ... Date: Wed Mar 13 10:34:59 2002; Posted By: Marie-Helene Boyer, History of Science, Mathematics and Technology, Anthropology; Area of science: Evolution; ID: 1010625184.Ev...
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