Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190225386 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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SAmazing teaching resource S401 This book is FANTASTIC! It's a great resource for all dancers and dance historians. I assigned this book for my students to read this semester and I think it will be hugely successful.. 01 said Amazing teaching resource. This book is FANTASTIC! It's a great resource for all dancers and dance historians. I assigned this book for my students to read this semester and I think it will be hugely successful.. twinkletoesak said WONDERFUL RESOURCE!. This wonderful book tells SO MUCH tap dance history It is a MUST-HAVE for every tap dancer!. Great book for my term paper Michelle Mednik I am not a dancer by any means, but for my dance term paper I wrote about each man in the "Challenge" sceen from the movie TAP. This book had everything I needed.
Carefully researched and eminently readable, this landmark volume will inspire generations to explore a legacy of tap dancing as corporeal evidence of Afro-Irish fusion. Her work here will inspire readers--tap enthusiasts, dance historians, as well as nonspecialist scholars and students--to delve deeper into the complicated history of this eminently American dance form." --Dance Research Journal"A great source of reference for Tap Dance culture and history, Tap Dancing America accumulates stories and articles in attempts to capture the essence of this elusive oral tradition. It's a hard book to put down and calls out to you with its inclusion and accuracy whether it be about the dance patterns, the personal or the historical dates and times. Summing up: Essential." --Choice"Hill is not only an accomplished tap dance historian (and
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover.In Tap Dancing America, Constance Valis Hill, herself an accomplished jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar, begins with a dramatic account of a buck dance challenge between Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Harry Swinton at Brooklyn's Bijou Theatre, on March 30, 1900, and proceeds decade by decade through the 20th century to the present day. She vividly describes tap's musical styles and steps -- from buck-and-wing and ragtime stepping at the turn of the century; jazz tapping to the rhythms of hot jazz, swing, and beb
She is Five College Professor of Dance at Hampshire College and the author of Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History (OUP, 2010) and Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers (Oxford University Press, 2000), winner of a 2001 ASCAP Deems-Taylor award. She has composed a chronology of tap dance for the Library