Informationen zum Autor The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz! and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New York and a medieval literature scholar. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns! is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance. Klappentext Artists like Bill Robinson! King Rastus Brown! John Bubbles! Honi Coles and others who speak to us in this book! are our Nijinskys! Daighilevs! Balanchines! and Grahams. There are so many books on ballet and modern dance. There are still a few on tap dance and they are so cavalierly allowed to go out of print even though the interest in them is so deep and sustaining. Zusammenfassung The Story of American Vernacular Dance Inhaltsverzeichnis Marshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher Prologue Prehistory Africa and the West Indies New Orleans and the South The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings From Folk to Professional Early Minstrelsy Minstrel Dances and Dancers Late Minstrelsy The Vernacular Medicine Shows and Gillies Carnivals! Circuses! and Negro Minstrels Roadshows! T.O.B.A.! and Picks The Witman Sisters Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics Ballroom Origins The Song Writer: Perry BradfordI The Song Writer: Perry BradfordII Broadway and the Reviewers Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway Early Harlem Shuffle Along Broadway: The Early Twenties Broadway: The Late Twenties Choreography: Buddy Bradley Technique: Pioneers! Innovators! and Stylists King Rastus Brown and the Time Step Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory James Barton: Versatility Harland Dixon and Character Dancing John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap Fred Astaire Specialties Eccentric Dancing Comedy Dancing Russian Dancing Acrobatics Straight Acrobatics The New Acrobatics The Flash Acts The Class Acts The Original Stylists The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton Pete Nugent and the Class Acts Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts The Jitterbug Harlem Background The Savoy Ballroom From Coast to Coast Requiem Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club Groundhog The Dying Breed Epilogue ...

Autorentext

Marshall Stearns; Jean Stearns

Klappentext

Artists like Bill Robinson, King Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Honi Coles and others who speak to us in this book, are our Nijinskys, Daighilevs, Balanchines, and Grahams. There are so many books on ballet and modern dance. There are still a few on tap dance and they are so cavalierly allowed to go out of print even though the interest in them is so deep and sustaining.

Zusammenfassung
The Story of American Vernacular Dance

Inhalt

• Marshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher Prologue Prehistory Africa and the West Indies New Orleans and the South The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings From Folk to Professional Early Minstrelsy Minstrel Dances and Dancers Late Minstrelsy The Vernacular Medicine Shows and Gillies Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks The Witman Sisters Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics Ballroom Origins The Song Writer: Perry BradfordI The Song Writer: Perry BradfordII Broadway and the Reviewers Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway Early Harlem Shuffle Along Broadway: The Early Twenties Broadway: The Late Twenties Choreography: Buddy Bradley Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists King Rastus Brown and the Time Step Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory James Barton: Versatility Harland Dixon and Character Dancing John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap Fred Astaire Specialties Eccentric Dancing Comedy Dancing Russian Dancing Acrobatics Straight Acrobatics The New Acrobatics The Flash Acts The Class Acts The Original Stylists The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton Pete Nugent and the Class Acts Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts The Jitterbug Harlem Background The Savoy Ballroom From Coast to Coast Requiem Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club Groundhog The Dying Breed * Epilogue