Meet Kitty Larsen the world s most unlikely detective. On the downhill side of 65 her figure has shifted from hourglass to pear-shaped she wears false eyelashes gobs of jewelry and custom-made tent dresses. A former mermaid with an aversion to water Kitty made the... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.

Where did big bands and swing music go. They didn t leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms jukeboxes bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler who has recreated the great music of World War II with... Lees meer.

Here is the vibrant colorful high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive fully documented history of a uniquely American art form exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the... Lees meer.

Traces the meteoric popularity of the iconic song by Marvin Gaye Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter against a backdrop of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 exploring the political and cultural events that shaped period music and how the song s multiple meanings r... Lees meer.

Frankenstein Charivari Dancing In T is een album van BBC Philharmonic uit 2007 en is uitgebracht onder het label Chandos... Lees meer.

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.

Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influences on Wagner the revolutionary who turned the world of opera upside down. Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influenc... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhamb... Lees meer.

Here is the vibrant colorful high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative filling a major gap in A... Lees meer.

In Los Angeles night after night the city s salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender race and class and of nationality citizenship and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives Cindy G... Lees meer.

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Representing dancers scholars admirers and critics this title offers a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times onwards. It offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the... Lees meer.