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What the Eye Hears : A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert (2015, Hardcover)
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- ISBN
- 9780865479531
- Book Title
- What the Eye Hears : a History of Tap Dancing
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Performing Arts
- Topic
- Dance / Tap, Dance / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 31.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 624 Pages
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times , begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it was probably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in American Notes for General Circulation ) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancers both well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy. What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865479534
ISBN-13
9780865479531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208633013
Product Key Features
Book Title
What the Eye Hears : a History of Tap Dancing
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Dance / Tap, Dance / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
31.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1794.S44 2015
Table of Content
Opening Act Part I: First Steps 1. Stealing Steps 2. Original Steps 3. Imitation Dance 4. Dancing Juba for Eels 5. The American Clog Part II: Everybody's Doing It Now 6. Big Time 7. The Practical Art of Stage Dancing 8. It's Getting Dark on Old Broadway Interlude: The Color Line Part III: America's Natural Way of Dancing 9. Rhythm for Sale 10. How to Hoof in Hollywod 11. Before the Fall Part IV: Out of Step 12. The Break 13. Continuation Part V: Putting the Shoes Back On 14. Revival 15. Renaissance 16. Lineage 17. Choreography and the Company Model 18. Black and Blue on Broadway 19. Young Again Part VI: An American Tradition, A Global Art 20. Danse à Claquettes, Steptanz, Sapateado, Tappudansu 21. Where's the Dance? Notes Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-005010
Dewey Decimal
792.7/809
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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