| Description |
xviii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Prehistory -- Beginnings -- The vernacular -- Tin pan alley and song lyrics -- Broadway and the reviewers -- Technique : pioneers, innovators, and stylists -- Specialties -- Acrobatics -- The class acts -- The jitterbug -- Requiem |
| Summary |
"For seven years, Marshall Stearns and his wife made pilgrimages to dimly lit, smoke-filled corners of London, Harlem, and New Orleans to ferret out whatever details legendary dancers such as 'Groundhog' or 'Pigmeat' Markham might recall. Their salty accounts would delight tellers of tales in every age.[...] Dancers such as Ida Forsyne, Rufus Greenlee, and Teddy Drayton were more than mere 'hoofers'. They were artists, and the sensitively written account of their trials and successes is a meaningful contribution to the history of the Negro's struggle for acceptance." - back cover |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Includes filmography (pages 403-427) |
| Notes |
Originally published New York : Macmillan, 1968 |
| Subject |
African American dance -- History.
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Dance -- United States -- History.
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Jazz dance -- History.
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| Author |
Stearns, Jean.
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| LC no. |
93040957 |
| ISBN |
0306805537 |
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