[PDF.98ee] What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

[PDF.jw67] What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Masterpiece|By Kindle Customer|This book is a masterful history of tap. He weaves together so much: the roots of dances from slavery in America, Irish clubbing, early Blackface minstrel shows, actual Black minstrel shows and a whole array of dancers. He focuses on the art of Henri Cole, the Nicolas brothers, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Gregory Hines and Savion Glover and ma| |An Economist Best Book of the Year||"Brian Seibert's authoritative What the Eye Hears illuminates those beginnings [of tap dance] -- along with what happened afterward -- as well as anyone ever will."

Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the va...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing   |  Brian Seibert.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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