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Seibert, Brian.
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Tap dancing -- History.
Tap dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Vaudeville -- United States -- History.
Dance -- United States -- History.
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Seibert, Brian.
Tap dancing -- History.
Tap dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Vaudeville -- United States -- History.
Dance -- United States -- History.
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What
the
eye
hears
: a
history
of
tap
dancing
/ Brian Seibert.
by
Seibert, Brian.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Call #:
792.7809 S457w
Subjects
Tap
dancing
--
History
.
Tap
dancers -- United States -- Biography.
Vaudeville -- United States --
History
.
Dance -- United States --
History
.
ISBN:
9780865479531 (hc.)
0865479534 (hc.)
Alternate title:
History
of
tap
dancing
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
vi, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-574) and index.
Summary:
"An authoritative
history
of
tap
dancing
, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in America Most dance arises from an interaction between music and movement.
Tap
is both
dancing
to music and
dancing
as music. We don't just watch it; we hear its rhythms and feel them in our muscles and bones. Like jazz,
tap
was born in the United States. It's a hybrid of traditional African dances and jig, clog, and other folk-dance forms from the British Isles.
Tap
's complex origins and its theatricalization in blackface minstrelsy. The author charts
tap
's growth in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century, chronicles its spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its post-World War II decline, and celebrates its reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. It is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (whose performance Charles Dickens described) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of
tap
while guiding us through the often surprising
history
of cultural exchange between black and white over centuries. An account of American popular culture, as well as the saga of African Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy"--Provided by publisher.
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Tantallon Public Library
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