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What the eye hears : a history of tap dancing / Brian Seibert.

By: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374536511
  • 9780374536510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.7/809 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1794 .S44 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Seibert, Brian. What the eye hears.
List(s) this item appears in: Dance
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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.

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