Jazz dance :
Stearns, Marshall Winslow 1908-1966
Jazz dance : the story of American vernacular dance / Marshall and Jean Stearns ; updated with a new foreword and afterword by Brenda Bufalino. - Pbk. ed. - New York : Da Capo Press, 1994. - xviii, 472 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Unabridged republication of original ed. published: NewYork: Macmillan, 1968, but with new foreword and afterword.
Foreword by Brenda Bufalino -- Marshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher -- INTRODUCTION / PART ONE : Prehistory / PART TWO : Beginnings / PART THREE : The Vernacular / PART FOUR : Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics / PART FIVE : Broadway and the Reviewers / PART SIX : Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists / PART SEVEN : Specialties PART EIGHT : Acrobatics PART NINE : The Class Acts / PART TEN : The Jitterbug / PART ELEVEN : Requiem / Afterword by Brenda Bufalino -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- APPENDICES / Index. 1. Prologue -- 2. Africa and the West Indies 3. New Orleans and the South 4. The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings 5. From Folk to Professional -- 6. Early Minstrelsy -- 7. Minstrel Dances and Dancers -- 8. Late Minstrelsy -- 9. Medicine Shows and Gillies -- 10. Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels -- 11. Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks -- 12. The Whitman Sisters -- 13. Ballroom Origins 14. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford I -- 15. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford II -- 16. Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway -- 17. Early Harlem -- 18. Shuffle Along -- 19. Broadway: The Early Twenties -- 20. Broadway: The Late Twenties -- 21. Choreography: Buddy Bradley -- 22. King Rastus Brown and the Time Step -- 23. Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes -- 24. Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory -- 25. James Barton: Versatility -- 26. Harland Dixon and Character Dancing -- 27. John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap -- 28. Fred Astaire -- 29. Eccentric Dancing -- 30. Comedy Dancing -- 31. Russian Dancing Acrobatics -- 32. Straight Acrobatics -- 33. The New Acrobatics -- 34. The Flash Acts -- 35. The Original Stylists -- 36. The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton -- 37. Pete Nugent and the Class Acts -- 38. Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts -- 39. Harlem Background -- 40. The Savoy Ballroom -- 41. From Coast to Coast -- 42. Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club -- 43. Groundhog 44. The Dying Breed -- 45. Epilogue A Selected List of Films and Kinescopes -- Analysis and Notation of Basic Afro-American Movements --
9780306805530 0306805537
793.30973 / STE
Jazz dance : the story of American vernacular dance / Marshall and Jean Stearns ; updated with a new foreword and afterword by Brenda Bufalino. - Pbk. ed. - New York : Da Capo Press, 1994. - xviii, 472 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Unabridged republication of original ed. published: NewYork: Macmillan, 1968, but with new foreword and afterword.
Foreword by Brenda Bufalino -- Marshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher -- INTRODUCTION / PART ONE : Prehistory / PART TWO : Beginnings / PART THREE : The Vernacular / PART FOUR : Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics / PART FIVE : Broadway and the Reviewers / PART SIX : Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists / PART SEVEN : Specialties PART EIGHT : Acrobatics PART NINE : The Class Acts / PART TEN : The Jitterbug / PART ELEVEN : Requiem / Afterword by Brenda Bufalino -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- APPENDICES / Index. 1. Prologue -- 2. Africa and the West Indies 3. New Orleans and the South 4. The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings 5. From Folk to Professional -- 6. Early Minstrelsy -- 7. Minstrel Dances and Dancers -- 8. Late Minstrelsy -- 9. Medicine Shows and Gillies -- 10. Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels -- 11. Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks -- 12. The Whitman Sisters -- 13. Ballroom Origins 14. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford I -- 15. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford II -- 16. Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway -- 17. Early Harlem -- 18. Shuffle Along -- 19. Broadway: The Early Twenties -- 20. Broadway: The Late Twenties -- 21. Choreography: Buddy Bradley -- 22. King Rastus Brown and the Time Step -- 23. Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes -- 24. Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory -- 25. James Barton: Versatility -- 26. Harland Dixon and Character Dancing -- 27. John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap -- 28. Fred Astaire -- 29. Eccentric Dancing -- 30. Comedy Dancing -- 31. Russian Dancing Acrobatics -- 32. Straight Acrobatics -- 33. The New Acrobatics -- 34. The Flash Acts -- 35. The Original Stylists -- 36. The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton -- 37. Pete Nugent and the Class Acts -- 38. Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts -- 39. Harlem Background -- 40. The Savoy Ballroom -- 41. From Coast to Coast -- 42. Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club -- 43. Groundhog 44. The Dying Breed -- 45. Epilogue A Selected List of Films and Kinescopes -- Analysis and Notation of Basic Afro-American Movements --
9780306805530 0306805537
793.30973 / STE