What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing Seibert BrianPaperback
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing Seibert BrianPaperback The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in…
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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing Seibert BrianPaperback
The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in AmericaWhat the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing and dances brought from Africa by slaves.
In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers.