Description: America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk Author: Megan Pugh Title: America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk Publication: Yale University Press, 2015 Description: Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index and photos. 416 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the artThe 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 hoedowns show up on elite opera house stages. Steps invented by slaves on antebellum plantations captivate the British royalty and the Parisian avant-garde. Dances were better boundary crossers than their dancers, however, and the issues of race and class that haunt everyday life shadow American dance as well. Deftly narrated, America Dancing demonstrates the centrality of dance in American art, life, and identity, taking us to watershed moments when the nation worked out a sense of itself through public movement. Seller ID: 200473 Subject: Sports, US History The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Megan Pugh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Printed: 2015
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Subject: History
