Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance - Paperback

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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance - Paperback

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance - Paperback

by Marshall Stearns , Jean Stearns
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Book Overview

"The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching 'Modern Jazz Dance' (a blend of Euro-American styles that owes little to jazz and less to jazz rhythms). However, we are dealing here with what may eventually be referred to as jazz dance, and we could not think of a more suitable title.

"The characteristic that distinguishes American vernacular dance--as does jazz music--is swing, which can be heard, felt, and seen, but defined only with great difficulty. . . ."

--from the Introduction

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Artists like Bill Robinson, King Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Honi Coles and others who speak to us in this book, are our Nijinskys, Daighilevs, Balanchines, and Grahams. There are so many books on ballet and modern dance. There are still a few on tap dance and they are so cavalierly allowed to go out of print even though the interest in them is so deep and sustaining.
ISBN9780306805530
Author Marshall Stearns , Jean Stearns
PublisherDa Capo Press
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages508
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance - Paperback

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance - Paperback

By Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns
About Marshall Stearns
The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New York and a medieval literature scholar. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance.
About Jean Stearns
The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New York and a medieval literature scholar. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance.

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