Tap Dancing America : a Cultural History.
Publication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010Description: 1 online resource (462 pages)ISBN:- 0199742189
- 9780199742189
- GV1794.H485 2010
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Article Abstract: Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--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 Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover. In Tap Dancing America, Constance Valis Hill, herself an accomplished jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar, begins with a dramatic account of a buck dance ch.