Brotherhood in Rhythm The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers

Name: Brotherhood in Rhythm The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
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ISBN: 9780195131666

ISBN-10: 0195131665

ISBN-13: 9780195131666

Edition: 2000

Authors: Constance Valis Hill, Gregory Hines

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They were two of the most explosive dancers of the twentieth century, dazzling audiences with daredevil splits, slides, and hair-raising flips. But they were also highly sophisticated dancers, refining a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith. They were Fayard and Harold Nicholas, two American masters masterfully portrayed in this new dual biography by Constance Valis Hill. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colorful analysis of their…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.40" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.320



Introduction to the Cooper Square Press Edition



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Preface



Born into Jazz



Brothers (1914-1931)



Blackbirds in New York (1932-1934)



All-Colored Comedy (1934-1936)



Babes on Broadway (1936-1938)



Class Act and Challenge (1938-1945)



Forties Swing, Hollywood Flash (1940-1945)



Converging Styles (1942-1945)



Swing to Bop (1945-1958)



Nostalgia, and All That Jazz (1964-1989)


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index