America dancing : from the cakewalk to the moonwalk /

An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pugh, Megan, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Dance > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States.
Danse > États-Unis > Histoire.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > General.
Dance.
Popular culture.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An American Style; 1 The Cakewalk, America's First National Dance; 2 Bill Robinson's Dream; 3 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Pick Themselves Up; 4 Agnes de Mille's Square Dance; 5 Paul Taylor's Bugle Boy; 6 Michael Jackson's Moonwalk; List of Dance Films and Videos; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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