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Modern moves : dancing race during the ragtime and jazz eras
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"Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between "black" and "white" cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It focuses on Manhattan, a...
"Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between "black" and "white" cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It focuses on Manhattan, a Black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally"--
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- Creator
- Danielle Robinson
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199779222, 0199779228, 9780199779215, 019977921X
- OCLC
- ocn907205024
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Let's Go Back Home: The Slow Drag, Black Migration, and the Birth of Black Harlem -- 2. A Colorful Nightmare: Immigrant Ragtime Dancing as Participatory Minstrelsy -- 3. The Ugly Duckling: The Refinement of Ragtime Dancing and the Mass Marketing of Modern Social Dance -- 4. The Eclipse: Modern Ballroom Dancing, Bodily Code Switching, and the Harlem Renaissance -- 5. Ragtime Legacies: Appropriation, Authenticity, and Opportunity -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Ballroom dancing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Dance -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Jazz -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century.
- Music and race -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.