Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular DanceSchirmer Books, 1979 - 464 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Prologue | 1 |
PART ONE Prehistory | 9 |
Africa and the West Indies | 11 |
Urheberrecht | |
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