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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance Paperback - 1994

by Marshall Stearns; Jean Stearns


From the publisher

"The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching 'Modern Jazz Dance' (a blend of Euro-American styles that owes little to jazz and less to jazz rhythms). However, we are dealing here with what may eventually be referred to as jazz dance, and we could not think of a more suitable title. "The characteristic that distinguishes American vernacular dance--as does jazz music--is swing, which can be heard, felt, and seen, but defined only with great difficulty. . . ." --from the Introduction

From the rear cover

Artists like Bill Robinson, King Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Honi Coles and others who speak to us in this book, are our Nijinskys, Daighilevs, Balanchines, and Grahams. There are so many books on ballet and modern dance. There are still a few on tap dance and they are so cavalierly allowed to go out of print even though the interest in them is so deep and sustaining.

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  • Title Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
  • Author Marshall Stearns; Jean Stearns
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 508
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 1994-03-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306805530 / 0306805537
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Dance - United States - History, African American dance - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93040957
  • Dewey Decimal Code 793.308

About the author

The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New York and a medieval literature scholar. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance.
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