TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stearns,Marshall Winslow
AU  - Stearns,Jean
TI  - Jazz dance: the story of American vernacular dance 
SN  - 9780306805530
U1  - 793.30973 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Da Capo Press, 
N1  - 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; 1. Prologue --; PART ONE : Prehistory; 2. Africa and the West Indies; 3. New Orleans and the South; 4. The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings; PART TWO : Beginnings; 5. From Folk to Professional --; 6.  Early Minstrelsy --; 7. Minstrel Dances and Dancers --; 8.  Late Minstrelsy --; PART THREE : The Vernacular; 9. Medicine Shows and Gillies --; 10. Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels --; 11. Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks --; 12. The Whitman Sisters --; PART FOUR : Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics; 13. Ballroom Origins; 14. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford I --; 15. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford II --; PART FIVE : Broadway and the Reviewers; 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 --; PART SIX : Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists; 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 --; PART SEVEN : Specialties; 29. Eccentric Dancing --; 30. Comedy Dancing --; 31. Russian Dancing Acrobatics --; PART EIGHT : Acrobatics; 32. Straight Acrobatics --; 33. The New Acrobatics --; 34. The Flash Acts --; PART NINE : The Class 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 --; PART TEN : The Jitterbug; 39. Harlem Background --; 40. The Savoy Ballroom --; 41. From Coast to Coast --; PART ELEVEN : Requiem; 42. Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club --; 43. Groundhog; 44. The Dying Breed --; 45. Epilogue; Afterword by Brenda Bufalino --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; APPENDICES; A Selected List of Films and Kinescopes --; Analysis and Notation of Basic Afro-American Movements --; Index
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