Title Modern moves : dancing race during the ragtime and jazz eras / Danielle Robinson

Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- 1. Let's Go Back Home: The Slow Drag, Black Migration, and the Birth of Black Harlem -- 2. A Colorful Nightmare: Immigrant Ragtime Dancing as Participatory Minstrelsy -- 3. The Ugly Duckling: The Refinement of Ragtime Dancing and the Mass Marketing of Modern Social Dance -- 4. The Eclipse: Ballroom Dancing, Bodily Code Switching, and the Harlem Renaissance -- 5. "Marvelous, new dirty steps": Appropriation, Authenticity, and Opportunity -- Conclusion Summary "Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between "black" and "white" cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It focuses on Manhattan, a Black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Ballroom dancing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Dance -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century Jazz -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century Music and race -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century GAMES -- Reference. GAMES -- Travel Games. Ballroom dancing Dance Dance -- Social aspects Immigrants Jazz Music and race Race relations Racism SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations Subject New York (State) New York (State) -- New York United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199779369 0199779368 9780199379866 0199379866

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