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America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

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Description for America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk Hardback. An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art Num Pages: 416 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art

The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another.  Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American.

Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael Jackson, Megan Pugh shows how freedom—that nebulous, contested American ideal—emerges as a genre-defining aesthetic. In Pugh’s account, ballerinas mingle with slumming thrill-seekers, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300201314
SKU
V9780300201314
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About Megan Pugh
Megan Pugh has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lewis and Clark College. Her writings on American art and culture appear frequently, and her poetry has been published in The Oxford American and VOLT among other publications. She lives in Portland, OR.

Reviews for America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
"As signifying dancers, men and women fly out of this deep, long-nurtured book. In clear and sensual prose, Megan Pugh has fashioned a history of modern America in gestures and movement. The pages never hold still." GREIL MARCUS, author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs and Real Life Rock  
Greil Marcus “With her locomotive ... Read more

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