Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780312294434ISBN-10:312294433UPC:9780312294434Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Theater, Dance, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Book Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.14 x 6.08 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC9XAMQ40A
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era
This unique study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African American performers working during the swing era-roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as a tour guide and barometer of the times on this excursion through the worlds of African American...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780312294434ISBN-10:312294433UPC:9780312294434Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Theater, Dance, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Book Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.14 x 6.08 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC9XAMQ40A
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division...
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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