Waltzing in the Dark

Name: Waltzing in the Dark
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African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

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This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as a tour guide and barometer of the times on this excursion, through the worlds of African-American vaudeville, separate black and white Americas, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.

Author Biography:

Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between practice and theory. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

Release date Australia

April 4th, 2002

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VIII, 270 p.

Pages

270

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9780312294434

Product ID

1724493

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