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Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
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Description for Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
Paperback. An exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. It chronicles the triumphs of black Americans and shows how they shaped American music, sports, and dance of the 1930s and beyond. It also shows how they emboldened ordinary African Americans to push for greater recognition and civil liberties. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJG; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
A brilliant exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded ""Jumping at the Woodside,"" and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step - the high-flying aerials of the jitterbuggers - and the basketball games that took place in the dance halls of African America became faster, higher, and flashier. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds put the ... Read more
A brilliant exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded ""Jumping at the Woodside,"" and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step - the high-flying aerials of the jitterbuggers - and the basketball games that took place in the dance halls of African America became faster, higher, and flashier. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds put the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496637
SKU
V9781558496637
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Unknown
Formerly associate professor of American studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, GENA CAPONI-TABERY is editor of Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).
Reviews for Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
A terrific piece of work - creative, imaginative, well written. Jump for Joy is the sort of book that should end up on the reading list of courses in American cultural history, African American studies, music and dance. It is also the sort of book that should reach an audience outside the academy. - Shane White, coauthor of Stylin': African ... Read more