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Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical
Beth Genne
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Description for Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical
Hardback. Dance Me a Song explores how Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and others led to the rise of a distinctive dance style as a crowning achievement of twentieth-century dance and cinema. Num Pages: 360 pages, 305 halftones. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; ASD; ASZ; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the songs and stories of the American musical. Freely crossing stylistic and class boundaries, their dances were rooted in the diverse dance and music cultures of European immigrants and African-American migrants who mingled in jazz age America. The new technology of sound cinema let them choreograph and fuse camera movement, light, and color with dance and music. Preserved intact for the largest audiences in dance history, their works continue to influence dance and film ... Read more
Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the songs and stories of the American musical. Freely crossing stylistic and class boundaries, their dances were rooted in the diverse dance and music cultures of European immigrants and African-American migrants who mingled in jazz age America. The new technology of sound cinema let them choreograph and fuse camera movement, light, and color with dance and music. Preserved intact for the largest audiences in dance history, their works continue to influence dance and film ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195382181
SKU
V9780195382181
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Ref
99-82
About Beth Genne
Beth Genne is Professor of Dance History and Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Dance Department and the Arts and Ideas concentration of the Residential College. She has written numerous book chapters on British ballet and dance in film (including Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli) and articles in such journals as Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, ... Read more
Reviews for Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical
What this book does is vitally important work in illuminating that uniquely American genre, the movie musical. It shows that the outlaw style of dance at the heart of it was created by freeform borrowings from both so-called highbrow end of the art and so-called lowbrow. In fact, Genne brings together not only styles but artists who don't usually meet ... Read more