What the eye hears : a history of tap dancing / Brian Seibert.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First paperback editionDescription: vi, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374536511
- 9780374536510
- 792.7/809 23
- GV1794 .S44 2016
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | NMC Library | Stacks | GV1794 .S44 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001498772 |
"First paperback edition, 2016"--Title page verso.
Originally published in 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-574) and index.
Part I: First steps -- Part II: Everybody's Doing It Now -- Part III: America's natural way of dancing Part IV: Out of step -- Part V: Putting the shoes back on -- Part VI: An American tradition, a global art.
A history of tap dancing explores its role as an art form that creates its own music, tracing its origins in African traditions and other folk dance forms, its growth on the stage and screen, and its reinvention by a new generation.