Stompin' at the Savoy The Story of Norma Miller

Name: Stompin' at the Savoy The Story of Norma Miller
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ISBN: 9780763622442

ISBN-10: 0763622443

ISBN-13: 9780763622442

Edition: 2006

Authors: Martin French, Alan B. Govenar, Martin French

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Through extensive interviews with jazz dancer Norma Miller, acclaimed author and filmmaker Alan Govenar captures the vitality, wry humor, and indomitable spirit of an American treasure. When she was just five years old, in 1924, Norma Miller knew just what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: she wanted to dance. It was the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, and Norma lived behind New York's Savoy Ballroom, the only dance hall in a still-segregated America where blacks and whites could mingle on the same mahogany floor. It was in this majestic "home of happy feet" that twelve-year-old Norma first brought the house down, swing-stepping with Twist Mouth George, one of the premier…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Jaime Adoff, son of Virginia Hamilton and Arnold Adoff, is a professional musician with several CDs to his credit. This is his first book. Martin French is an award-winning artist.

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY is professor emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University and former Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society. PATRICK B. MULLEN is professor of English at Ohio State University. ALAN GOVENAR is president of Documentary Arts and a writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker.