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Pages: 413
Authors: Megan Pugh
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another.
Tap Dancing America
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Constance Valis Hill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all
Dancing Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual
Dancing Wisdom
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Yvonne Daniel
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
Shanghai's Dancing World
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Andrew Field
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Chinese University Press

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"It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively t