Todd Decker (Paul Tietjens Profes Paul Tietjens Professor of Music

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Astaire by Numbers

Time & the Straight White Male Dancer

Beschreibung

Astaire by Numbers offers a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture through a new looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era. Author Todd Decker provides a deep examination of this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality.

Autor

Todd Decker is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published four books and many articles and book chapters on popular music and media in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. Decker has lectured on the stage and screen musical at the Library of Congress and London's Victoria and Albert Museum and was featured in a 2019 BBC World Service documentary on the song "Ol' Man River."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780197643594
• ISBN-10: 0197643590
• Artikelnr.: 64292076