Tap dancing America [electronic resource] : a cultural history / Constance Valis Hill.
- 作者： Hill, Constance Valis.
- 出版： New York ;Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009.
- 叢書名： Oxford Scholarship Online
- 主題： Tap dancing--History.--United States
- ISBN： 9780195390827
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電子書
- 一般註：Electronic reproduction. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005157425 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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 bebop in the '20s, '30s and '40s; to hip-hop-inflected hitting and hoofing in heels (high and low) from the 1990s right up to today. Tap was long considered "a man's game," and Hill's is the first history to highlight such outstanding female dancers as Ada Overton Walker, Kitty O'Neill, and Alice Whitman, at the turn of the 20th century, as well as the pioneering women composers of the tap renaissance, in the 70s and 80s, and the hard-hitting rhythm-tapping women of the millennium such as Chloe Arnold, Ayodele Casel, Michelle Dorrance, and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards.Written with all the verve and grace of tap itself, drawing on eye-witness accounts of early performances as well as interviews with today's greatest tappers, and richly illustrated with over ninety images, Tap Dancing America fills a major gap in American dance history and places tap firmly center stage.
摘要註
In 'Tap Dancing America', accomplished dance historian Constance Valis Hill offers the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American dance form. Her narrative, filled with poignant anecdotes of tap challenges, tackles race and gender head-on in telling the story of this beloved popular art form.