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A richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, the 20th-Anniversary Edition of
Brotherhood in Rhythm brings the Nicholas Brothers' act to life, explaining their significance through a colourful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and the evolution of their style.
Sommario
- Dedication
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Gregory Hines
- Foreword to the 20th Anniversary Edition
- Maurice Hines
- Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Born into Jazz
- 2. Brothers (1914-1931)
- 3. Blackbirds in New York (1932-1934)
- 4. All-Colored Comedy (1934-1936)
- 5. Babes on Broadway (1936-1938)
- 6. Class Act and Challenge (1938-1945)
- 7. Forties Swing, Hollywood Flash (1940-1945)
- 8. Converging Styles (1942-1945)
- 9. Swing to Bop (1945-1958)
- 10. Nostalgia, and All That Jazz (1964-1989)
- 11. Resurgence (1980-1989)
- 12. Legacy
- Notes
- Glossary
- Chronology of Performance
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Constance Valis Hill is Five College Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Hampshire College. She has taught at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, Conservatoire d'arts Dramatique, and New York University. As a choreographer, director, and mask specialist, she worked with the French playwright Eugene Ionesco; Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda; Romanian director Liviu Ciulei, and Toni Morrison on her play, Dreaming Emmett, directed by Gilbert Moses. She is the author of Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, which won the 2000 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; Tap Dancing America, A Cultural History (2010), which was awarded grants from John D. Rockefeller and John Simon Guggenheim Foundations, and the 2010 Bueno de la Toro Prize for outstanding scholarship in dance; and Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Dance on Stage, Film, and Media, a 3500-record database of tap performance for the Library of Congress.
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A richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, the 20th-Anniversary Edition of Brotherhood in Rhythm brings the Nicholas Brothers' act to life, explaining their significance through a colourful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and the evolution of their style.
Testo aggiuntivo
A peerless jazz-tap biography and an example of dance history writing at its best.
