Tap dancing America : a cultural history /
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 G...
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Trickster Gods and rapparees (1650-1900)
- Buck-and-wing (turn of the century)
- Over-the-top and in-the-trenches (teens)
- Simply full of jazz (twenties)
- Swing time (thirties)
- Jumpin' jive (forties)
- Beat, bebop, birth of the cool (fifties)
- Tap happenings (sixties)
- Nostalgia, and all that tap (seventies)
- Black and blue (eighties)
- Noise and funk (nineties)
- Hoofing in heels (millennium).