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Author : Pat Brisson
Release : 2005
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 903/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tap-dance Fever by : Pat Brisson
Download or read book Tap-dance Fever written by Pat Brisson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annabelle Applegate will not stop tap-dancing no matter what the frustrated citizens of Fiddlers Creek do to make her quit.
Author : Jamie Suzanne
Release : 2001
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dance Fever by : Jamie Suzanne
Download or read book Dance Fever written by Jamie Suzanne. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz, having agreed to go to the dance with Ronald, is dismayed when Blue, the guy she really wanted to go with, brings a fabulous date.
Author : Brian Seibert
Release : 2015-11-17
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 616/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What the Eye Hears by : Brian Seibert
Download or read book What the Eye Hears written by Brian Seibert. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Constance Valis Hill
Release : 2014-11-12
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 386/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tap Dancing America by : Constance Valis Hill
Download or read book Tap Dancing America written by Constance Valis Hill. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.
Author : Florence Welch
Release : 2018-07-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Useless Magic by : Florence Welch
Download or read book Useless Magic written by Florence Welch. This book was released on 2018-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.
