Constance Valis Hill

Tap Dancing America

A Cultural History

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Produktbeschreibung

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 791g
• ISBN-13: 9780190225384
• ISBN-10: 0190225386
• Artikelnr.: 47863442

Autorenporträt

Dance historian and choreographer; Five College Professor of Dance (Hampshire College). Author of Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History (OUP, 2010) and Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers (Cooper Square Press, 2002), winner of a 2001 ASCAP Deems-Taylor award.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Dianne Walker
Preface
Chapter 1: Trickster Gods and Rapparees (1650-1900)
Chapter 2: Buck-and-Wing (Turn of the Century)
Chapter 3: Over-the-Top and In-the-Trenches (Teens)
Chapter 4: Simply Full of Jazz (Twenties)
Chapter 5: Swing Time (Thirties)
Chapter 6: Jumpin' Jive (Forties)
Chapter 7: Beat, Bebop, Birth of the Cool (Fifties)
Chapter 8: Tap Happenings (Sixties)
Chapter 9: Nostalgia, and All That Tap (Seventies)
Chapter 10: Black and Blue (Eighties)
Chapter 11: Noise and Funk (Nineties)
Chapter 12: Hoofing in Heels (Millennium)
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index