| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Jazz dance on the silver screen: race, gender, genre -- Doomed divas: Black dancing women in early sound film -- Kids and class acts: male dancers in Black-cast music shorts -- Potential pioneer: the film career of Black tap dancer Jeni LeGon -- Jumpin' at the jukebox, dancin' in the street: dance, race, and space in 1940s soundies -- Harlem to Hollywood: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and the crossover success of a Black dance -- "A savage exhibition"? Swing and White youth culture in B movies -- Dance history, the swing dance revival, and vintage movies in the digital age |
| Summary |
With a majority of examples taken from marginal film forms, such as shorts and B movies, the book highlights their role in disseminating alternative images of racial and gender identities as embodied by dancers - images that were at least partly at odds with those typically found in major Hollywood productions |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2021) |
| Subject |
Jazz dance -- History
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African American dancers -- History
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Racism and the arts -- United States -- History
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Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. -- History
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African American dancers
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Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
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Jazz dance
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Racism and the arts
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780861969753 |
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0861969758 |
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9780861969784 |
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0861969782 |
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