Swing Dancing
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Swing Dancing

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

About this book

Telling a riveting true story of the emergence and development of an American icon, this book traces swing dancing from its origins to its status as a modern-day art form. From its unlikely origins in the African slave trade, one of the saddest chapters of American history, swing dance emerged as a celebration of the soul. Swing is now recognized around the globe as a joyous partnered dance, uniquely Afro-American in origin and an American treasure. This book examines how the original swing style of the 1920s, the Lindy Hop, branched out and evolved with the changing dynamics of popular culture, paralleling the development of the nation. Swing Dancing covers the dance through the years of minstrelsy, the jazz age, the big band era, bebop, and the decline of partnered dancing in the 1960s. Swing experts and instructors Tamara and Erin Stevens have combined a compelling historic examination of swing dance with an assortment of riveting personal interviews and photographic documentation to create a comprehensive reference book on this important art form.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780313375170
eBook ISBN
9780313375187
Edition
1
Subtopic
Dance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1: Swing Dance: Born in the USA
  7. Chapter 2: Bred in Minstrelsy, Raised in Rhythm
  8. Chapter 3: Ragtime, Jazz, and Swing Dance Gets a Name
  9. Chapter 4: It Started at the Savoy
  10. Chapter 5: Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
  11. Chapter 6: Swingin’ in Hollywood
  12. Chapter 7: A Dance by Any Other Name . . . (Various Styles of Partnered Swing)
  13. Chapter 8: The Decline
  14. Chapter 9: The Road to Resurgence
  15. Chapter 10: The Second Era of Swing, and Beyond
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index