Brotherhood in rhythm : the jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas Brothers /

Brotherhood in rhythm : the jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas Brothers / Constance Valis Hill.

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"A lovingly researched and thoughtfully created portrait of the Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold, two of the most explosive dancers of the twentieth century who refined a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith. Interweaves an intim...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hill, Constance Valis (Author)
Other Authors: Hines, Maurice (author of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Edition:20th anniversary second edition.
Subjects:
Nicholas Brothers.
Dancers > United States > Biography.
African American dancers > Biography.
African American dance teachers.
Jazz tap > United States > History.
Vaudeville > United States > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance > History.
Racism and the arts > United States > History > 20th century.
African American dancers.
Dancers.
Harlem Renaissance.
Jazz tap.
Racism and the arts.
Vaudeville.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Forward to the First Edition / Gregory Hines
  • Forward to the Second Edition / Maurice Hines
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Born into jazz
  • Brothers (1914-1931)
  • Blackbirds in New York (1932-1934)
  • All-colored comedy (1934-1936)
  • Babes on Broadway (1936-1938)
  • Class act and challenge (1938-1945)
  • Forties swing, Hollywood flash ((1940-1945)
  • Converging styles (1942-1945)
  • Swing to Bop (1945-1958)
  • Nostalgia, and all that jazz (1964-1989)
  • Resurgence (1980-1989)
  • Legacy.

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