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_a793.30973
_bSTE
100 1 _aStearns, Marshall Winslow
_d1908-1966
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aJazz dance :
_bthe story of American vernacular dance /
_cMarshall and Jean Stearns ; updated with a new foreword and afterword by Brenda Bufalino.
250 _aPbk. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bDa Capo Press,
_c1994.
300 _axviii, 472 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aUnabridged republication of original ed. published: NewYork: Macmillan, 1968, but with new foreword and afterword.
505 _tForeword by Brenda Bufalino --
_tMarshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher --
_tINTRODUCTION /
_r1. Prologue --
_tPART ONE : Prehistory /
_r2. Africa and the West Indies
_r3. New Orleans and the South
_r4. The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings
_tPART TWO : Beginnings /
_r5. From Folk to Professional --
_r6. Early Minstrelsy --
_r7. Minstrel Dances and Dancers --
_r8. Late Minstrelsy --
_tPART THREE : The Vernacular /
_r9. Medicine Shows and Gillies --
_r10. Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels --
_r11. Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks --
_r12. The Whitman Sisters --
_tPART FOUR : Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics /
_r13. Ballroom Origins
_r14. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford I --
_r15. The Song Writer: Perry Bradford II --
_tPART FIVE : Broadway and the Reviewers /
_r16. Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway --
_r17. Early Harlem --
_r18. Shuffle Along --
_r19. Broadway: The Early Twenties --
_r20. Broadway: The Late Twenties --
_r21. Choreography: Buddy Bradley --
_tPART SIX : Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists /
_r22. King Rastus Brown and the Time Step --
_r23. Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes --
_r24. Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory --
_r25. James Barton: Versatility --
_r26. Harland Dixon and Character Dancing --
_r27. John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap --
_r28. Fred Astaire --
_tPART SEVEN : Specialties
_r29. Eccentric Dancing --
_r30. Comedy Dancing --
_r31. Russian Dancing Acrobatics --
_tPART EIGHT : Acrobatics
_r32. Straight Acrobatics --
_r33. The New Acrobatics --
_r34. The Flash Acts --
_tPART NINE : The Class Acts /
_r35. The Original Stylists --
_r36. The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton --
_r37. Pete Nugent and the Class Acts --
_r38. Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts --
_tPART TEN : The Jitterbug /
_r39. Harlem Background --
_r40. The Savoy Ballroom --
_r41. From Coast to Coast --
_tPART ELEVEN : Requiem /
_r42. Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club --
_r43. Groundhog
_r44. The Dying Breed --
_r45. Epilogue
_tAfterword by Brenda Bufalino --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tAPPENDICES /
_rA Selected List of Films and Kinescopes --
_rAnalysis and Notation of Basic Afro-American Movements --
_tIndex.
700 1 _aStearns, Jean
_eco-author
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