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The Charleston Shuffle

Author : Daniel West
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304695476
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Charleston Shuffle written by Daniel West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charleston Shuffle Life is a slow, sensual, dance Some dances just happen to be deadlier than others Brent's life starts to unravel after he learns that his wife is having an affair Brent relocates to Charleston, South Carolina, to rebuild his life Brent's big break comes when he meets, Megan, a local nurse, and a belle of the Charleston social scene, she uses her political connections to secure Brent a job as a crime reporter at the local newspaper Brent makes a profound discovery, the string of older businessmen dying while on vacation at the local five star hotel, are not the "natural causes" deaths that the local homicide detectives think they are Brent has a chance to reclaim everything in life, if only he can find a way to prove his theory to the local police, and help them catch this serial killer Brent can have everything he has always wanted in life If only he can learn to master the Charleston shuffle

Embodied Nostalgia

Author : Phoebe Rumsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000909875
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Nostalgia written by Phoebe Rumsey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre. The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910-1950), however, performed and produced after that time, creating a spectrum of nostalgic impulses that are interrogated for social and political resonance and meaning. All reflect the fractures or changes in the social dance when brought to the stage and expose the complexities of the embodied nostalgia – broadly interpreted as the physicalizing of community memories, longings, and historical meaning – the dances carry with them. Particular attention is focused on the Black ownership of the social dances and the subsequent appropriation, cultural theft, and forgotten legacies. By approaching musical theatre through this lens of social dance––always already deeply connected to notions of class and race––and the politics of choreography therein, a unique and necessary method to describing, discussing, and critically evaluating the body in motion in musical theatre is put forth.

Dancing In Hell

Author : Daniel West
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312291958
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dancing In Hell written by Daniel West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I faced this life-altering situation there were no books on mid-life crises available. I wrote this book to be exactly what I would have wanted someone to place in my hands on day one. If you were expecting a magic answer that will give you your spouse and your life back, then put this book down and buy a different one - those books will not get him or her back for you either. Those books will make you false promises and give you hope. If you are ready to face the world as the remaining sane parent and save the rest of your family, then read on and let's get started. This guide is for you, not for the spouse that is causing this problem. You will not be able to change your spouse - only they can do that - but you can change yourself, and that will change how you see the whole world.

The Painter and Decorator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Painter and Decorator written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blessed Experiences

Author : James E. Clyburn
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173388
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Blessed Experiences written by James E. Clyburn and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shares lessons learned on his way from the Jim Crow South to a top spot on Capitol Hill . . . [a] remarkably candid new memoir” —NPR From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, US Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, “one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.” Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician and a fundamentalist minister, Clyburn began his ascent to leadership at the age of twelve, when he was elected president of his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter. He broke barriers through peaceful protests and steadfast beliefs in equality and justice. As a civil rights leader at South Carolina State College, as human affairs commissioner under John C. West and three subsequent governors, and as South Carolina’s first African American congressman since 1897, Clyburn has established a long and impressive record of public leadership and advocacy for human rights, education, historic preservation, and economic development. Includes a foreword from Emmy Award–winning actress and the congressman’s longtime friend Alfre Woodard “Blessed Experiences has captured not just the history of this tireless leader’s more-than-four decades in public service, but also a sense of the times.” —Warren Buffett

G.K.'s Weekly and the Weekly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book G.K.'s Weekly and the Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Race and Performance after Repetition

Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478009314
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Race and Performance after Repetition written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization, organization, measurement, and politics of race in performance. The contributors examine theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, photography, and other forms of performance in topics that range from the movement of boxer Joe Louis to George C. Wolfe's 2016 reimagining of the 1921 all-black musical comedy Shuffle Along to the relationship between dance, mourning, and black adolescence in Flying Lotus's music video “Never Catch Me.” Proposing a spectrum of coexisting racial temporalities that are not tethered to repetition, this collection reconsiders central theories in performance studies in order to find new understandings of race. Contributors. Joshua Chambers-Letson, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Nicholas Fesette, Patricia Herrera, Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Douglas A. Jones Jr., Mario LaMothe, Daphne P. Lei, Jisha Menon, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Post, Elizabeth W. Son, Shane Vogel, Catherine M. Young, Katherine Zien

Ultimate Beginner Blues Drums

Author : Tom Brechtlein
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781576236703
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Ultimate Beginner Blues Drums written by Tom Brechtlein and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first step towards experiencing the fun of playing blues music. This book & audio package will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues drums. Topics include practice tips, note values, shuffle patterns, slow blues patterns, alternate cymbal patterns for a shuffle, hi-hat coordination exercises, bass drum variations, blues rumba, the open hi-hat sound, the Steve Gadd Shuffle," new fill ideas, developing a groove with a bass player, four play-along charts and much more."

Rhythm Section Workshop

Author : Shelly Berg
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739037683
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Rhythm Section Workshop written by Shelly Berg and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fix any rhythm section for less than $80! Perfect for instrumental jazz ensembles, small group combos, vocal jazz ensembles, and praise and worship bands!

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y

Author : Cary D. Wintz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584580
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y written by Cary D. Wintz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.

Babylon Girls

Author : Jayna Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390698
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Babylon Girls written by Jayna Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows—chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like—between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed by African American singers and dancers, Jayna Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. In an era of U.S. and British imperialism, these women challenged and played with constructions of race, gender, and the body as they moved across stages and geographic space. They pioneered dance movements including the cakewalk, the shimmy, and the Charleston—black dances by which the “New Woman” defined herself. These early-twentieth-century performers brought these dances with them as they toured across the United States and around the world, becoming cosmopolitan subjects more widely traveled than many of their audiences. Investigating both well-known performers such as Ada Overton Walker and Josephine Baker and lesser-known artists such as Belle Davis and Valaida Snow, Brown weaves the histories of specific singers and dancers together with incisive theoretical insights. She describes the strange phenomenon of blackface performances by women, both black and white, and she considers how black expressive artists navigated racial segregation. Fronting the “picaninny choruses” of African American child performers who toured Britain and the Continent in the early 1900s, and singing and dancing in The Creole Show (1890), Darktown Follies (1913), and Shuffle Along (1921), black women variety-show performers of the early twentieth century paved the way for later generations of African American performers. Brown shows not only how these artists influenced transnational ideas of the modern woman but also how their artistry was an essential element in the development of jazz.

Tap Dancing America

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225386
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Tap Dancing America written by Constance Valis Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827723
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance written by George Hutchinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harlem Renaissance (1918–1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. The movement laid the groundwork for all later African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this 2007 Companion is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement. It first discusses the historical contexts of the Harlem Renaissance, both national and international; then presents original discussions of a wide array of authors and texts; and finally treats the reputation of the movement in later years. Giving full play to the disagreements and differences that energized the renaissance, this Companion presents a set of new readings encouraging further exploration of this dynamic field.

11 Ruby Road: 1925

Author : Charlotte Barkla
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760657999
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book 11 Ruby Road: 1925 written by Charlotte Barkla and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the 11 Ruby Road series set in the roaring 1920s - perfect period fiction for middle-grade readers and for fans of the Our Australian Girl series. It is 1925 and Bert Mueller and his German-Australian family have moved from Ipswich to their new house at 11 Ruby Road. Bert’s father has been deported to Germany after the Great War, and with Dad still absent, Bert is unsure about moving away. But the city means opportunity and jobs for his mother and older siblings. And for the grown-ups , it also means fun - dressing up, going out, and all that jazz. Bert loves jazz too, but he’s too young for the clubs, and instead his time is spent at his new school where the kids play cricket, not music. But with the help of a Gramophone, Bert has a solution. He will start his own jazz club, and 11 Ruby Road has the perfect spot to host it. But as prejudice about Bert and his German family start to affect their new life, Bert has to find a way to save his jazz club and his family.

The Tap Dance Dictionary

Author : Mark Knowles
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487461
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Tap Dance Dictionary written by Mark Knowles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and performers often use totally different terms for exactly the same step. The various names of all steps and clear descriptions of them are collected for the first time in this reference work. The emphasis is on all variations of a name, from universally recognized terms to simple "pet" names that individual performers and choreographers have created, with extensive cross-references provided. Each of the steps is fully described, with appropriate counts, explanations and history. Many antique and unusual steps such as the Patting Juba, the Quack and the Swanee Shuffle are included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Brotherhood in Rhythm

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412150
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Brotherhood in Rhythm written by Constance Valis Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade, and with a number of other stars on the stage and on the screen. Author Hill not only guides readers through the brothers' showstopping successes and the repressive times in which their dancing won them universal acclaim, she also offers extensive insight into the history and choreography of tap dancing, bringing readers up to speed on the art form in which the Nicholas Brothers excelled.

Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism

Author : Thomas Brothers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241459
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism written by Thomas Brothers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. "Profoundly evocative and altogether admirable…The writing and detail are so brilliant that I found the volume revelatory." —Tim Page, Washington Post Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations, but his story would be incomplete without examining how he struggled in a society seething with brutally racist ideologies, laws, and practices. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of the great jazz musician into his most creatively fertile years in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Armstrong created not one but two modern musical styles. Brothers wields his own tremendous skill in making the connections between history and music accessible to everyone as Armstrong shucks and jives across the page. Through Brothers's expert ears and eyes we meet an Armstrong whose quickness and sureness, so evident in his performances, served him well in his encounters with racism while his music soared across the airwaves into homes all over America. Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism blends cultural history, musical scholarship, and personal accounts from Armstrong's contemporaries to reveal his enduring contributions to jazz and popular music at a time when he and his bandmates couldn’t count on food or even a friendly face on their travels across the country. Thomas Brothers combines an intimate knowledge of Armstrong's life with the boldness to examine his place in such a racially charged landscape. In vivid prose and with vibrant photographs, Brothers illuminates the life and work of the man many consider to be the greatest American musician of the twentieth century.