Between beats : the jazz tradition and Black vernacular dance /

Between beats : the jazz tradition and Black vernacular dance /

"The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance explores the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. It aims to show how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development, but it a...

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Author / Creator: Wells, Christi Jay (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
20th century
Jazz > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Jazz dance.
Music and dance > United States > History > 20th century.
Music and dance.
History.
Jazz > Social aspects.
Jazz.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Jazz Music and its Choreographies of Listening
  • "Its Bite and Its Feeling" : The Quadroon Ball and Jazz's New Orleans Plaçage Complex
  • "Lindy Hopper's Delight" : The Chick Webb Orchestra and the Fluid Labor of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
  • "Counter-Bopaganda" and "Torn Riffs" : Bebop as Popular Dance Music
  • "A Fine Art in Danger" : Marshall Stearns's Jazz Dance Advocacy
  • Dancing Every Note : Community Theater and Kinetic Memory at Jazz 966.

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