LEADER 03564nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910792225203321 005 20190108070301.0 010 $a0-19-974589-7 010 $a0-19-022538-6 010 $a9786612731112 010 $a1-282-73111-4 010 $a0-19-974218-9 024 7 $a2027/heb31419 035 $a(CKB)2560000000296573 035 $a(EBL)472292 035 $a(OCoLC)609850545 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000366535 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472292 035 $a(dli)HEB31419 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000733 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000296573 100 $a20090220d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTap dancing America $ea cultural history /$fConstance Valis Hill 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (612 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-539082-2 311 $a0-19-986356-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-408) and index. 327 $aTrickster Gods and rapparees (1650-1900) -- Buck-and-wing (turn of the century) -- Over-the-top and in-the-trenches (teens) -- Simply full of jazz (twenties) -- Swing time (thirties) -- Jumpin' jive (forties) -- Beat, bebop, birth of the cool (fifties) -- Tap happenings (sixties) -- Nostalgia, and all that tap (seventies) -- Black and blue (eighties) -- Noise and funk (nineties) -- Hoofing in heels (millennium). 330 $aThis is the first comprehensive, fully documented, intercultural history of tap dance, a uniquely American art form, that explores all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of contemporary tap luminaries. Tap dance evolved from the oral traditions and expressive cultures of the West Africans and the Irish that converged and collided in America, and was perpetuated by such key features as the tap challenge?any competition or showdown in which dancers compete against each other before an audience of spectators or judges. The book begins with an account of a buck dance challenge between Bill (?Bojangles?) Robinson and Harry Swinton at Brooklyn?s Bijou Theatre, in 1900, and proceeds decade by decade through the twentieth century. Vividly described are tap?s musical styles and steps?from buck-and-wing and ragtime stepping at the turn of the century; jazz tapping to the rhythms of hot jazz, swing, and bebop in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s; to hip-hop-inflected hitting and hoofing in heels (high and low) from the 1990s up to today. Tap dancing has long been considered ?a man?s game,? and this book is the first history to highlight such outstanding female artists as Ada Overton Walker, Kitty O?Neill, and Alice Whitman, at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as the pioneering women composers of the tap renaissance, in the 1970s and 1980s, and the hard-hitting rhythm-tapping women of the millennium. 606 $aTap dancing$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aTap dancing$xHistory. 676 $a792.7/8 700 $aHill$b Constance Valis$01584882 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bSFU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792225203321 996 $aTap dancing America$93868966 997 $aUNINA