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Waltzing in the Dark
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
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Description for Waltzing in the Dark
Paperback. This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294434
SKU
V9780312294434
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About Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between ... Read more
Reviews for Waltzing in the Dark
"Here is a ... scholarship possessing funk, rigor and style...It is as sensuous as the artists she describes, employs a zigzagging, swinging approach to her topic and provides a useful guide in our ongoing struggle against the sands of invisibalisation." - Bill T. Jones, choreographer "...a rare and gifted writer, a gem of a cultural portraitist...she teaches ... Read more