What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Seibert, Brian
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Seibert, Brian

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical...
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Author: Brian Seibert
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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Seibert, Brian

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

$53.31
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Seibert, Brian

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

$53.31
Author: Brian Seibert
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in America

What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. 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. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits. 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. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture.

This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners and illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy. What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.

Author: Brian Seibert
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/22/2016
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780374536510


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About the Author
Brian Seibert is a dance critic for The New York Times and a contributor to The New Yorker. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. What the Eye Hears is his first book.
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