To Moonstomp: a simple dance derived from earlier styles of reggae to associate with offbeat genres such as
ska and
dub.
Despite popular belief, this does not have anything to do with violent acts with both
feet upon
one's head, and is wrongly thought to become associative with the extreme neo-
fascist ideas of cult film "American History X"
Despite unpopular belief, the term or idea wasn't made famous on Rancid's "Roots Radicals" song on the "Out Come The Wolves" album, neither.
It is also referred to as "skanking", which has it's origins in Jamaica, also. This is a perfectly respectable name.
To moonstomp conventionally, it is suggested that you raise your left
leg along with your left arm and produce a low kicking movement towards the ground in front while making a slow and gentle "punching the air" movement with your fist, sweeping it behind your right
leg and doing the same movement symmetrically with your right
leg and right arm and thus repeating, to the rhythm and tempo of the ska or
dub song, until the end of the song.
"I want all you skinheads to get up on your
feet, put your
braces together and your boots on your
feet and give me some of that old moonstomping……"
