Tap Dancing America : a Cultural History.

Tap Dancing America : a Cultural History.

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, an...

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Main Author: Hill, Constance Valis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.
Subjects:
Tap dancing > United States > History.
Tap dancing
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 TRICKSTER GODS AND RAPPAREES (16501900); 2 BUCK-AND-WING (TURN OF THE CENTURY); 3 OVER-THE-TOP AND IN-THE-TRENCHES (TEENS); 4 SIMPLY FULL OF JAZZ (TWENTIES); 5 SWING TIME (THIRTIES); 6 JUMPIN' JIVE (FORTIES); 7 BEAT, BEBOP, BIRTH OF THE COOL (FIFTIES); 8 TAP HAPPENINGS (SIXTIES); 9 NOSTALGIA, AND ALL THAT TAP (SEVENTIES); 10 BLACK AND BLUE (EIGHTIES); 11 NOISE AND FUNK (NINETIES); 12 HOOFING IN HEELS (MILLENNIUM); Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.

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