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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap DancingBOOK DETAILHardcover: 624 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 17, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0865479534 ISBN-13: 978-0865479531 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.8 x 9.3 inches Shipping Weight: 2pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Customer Reviews:Step By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Winner of Anisfield-Wolf BookAward Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers anauthoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic forThe New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancingfrom the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to thestage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudevillecircuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquityon Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates itsrediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In theprocess, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account ofAmerican popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it wasprobably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in AmericanNotes for General Circulation) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire andGinger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seiberttraces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancersboth well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacksand whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story ofAfrican-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the painand pride of a complicated legacy. What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entirehistory of tap in its every step.
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