- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Modern moves (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Modern moves (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 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: Modern Ballroom Dancing, Bodily Code Switching, and the Harlem Renaissance -- 5. Ragtime Legacies: Appropriation, Authenticity, and Opportunity -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 2014046794
- Author
Robinson, Danielle, 1971-
- Title
Modern moves [electronic resource] : dancing race during the ragtime and jazz eras / Danielle Robinson.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
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