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Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History de Constance Valis Hill

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History

Autor Constance Valis Hill
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 feb 2010

Publicată sub egida prestigioasei Oxford University Press, această lucrare monumentală apare într-un moment de reevaluare a contribuțiilor culturale americane, oferind prima istorie complet documentată a dansului tap. Suntem de părere că rigoarea academică se împletește aici armonios cu pasiunea interpretativă, Constance Valis Hill reușind să transpună în cuvinte ritmul sacadat și energia debordantă a unei arte născute la intersecția culturilor afro-irlandeze. Experiența de lectură este una profund senzorială; cele 99 de ilustrații alb-negru funcționează ca niște ferestre deschise către scenele de la Bijou Theatre sau Cotton Club, permițând cititorului să vizualizeze eleganța mișcărilor descrise.

Recomandăm acest volum pentru modul în care recuperează verigile lipsă ale istoriei spectacolului, punând accent pe evoluția tehnică de la „buck-and-wing” la ritmurile complexe de bebop și hip-hop. Colecționarii care au apreciat What the Eye Hears de Brian Seibert vor găsi aici aceeași calitate de reproducere și o documentare la fel de minuțioasă, însă cu o atenție sporită acordată contribuției feminine, adesea omisă în cronicile anterioare. În contextul operei sale, Tap Dancing America reprezintă o extindere firească a analizei începute în Brotherhood in Rhythm, unde autoarea s-a concentrat pe biografia fraților Nicholas. Dacă lucrarea anterioară era un studiu de caz intens, volumul de față este o panoramă vastă, o cronică culturală care așază dansul tap pe aceeași treaptă de importanță cu jazz-ul sau opera în patrimoniul universal.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195390827
ISBN-10: 0195390822
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 99 black and white halftone illustrations
Dimensiuni: 186 x 259 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de artele spectacolului care dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile sociale și tehnice ale dansului american. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară, avizată, asupra modului în care pașii de dans au oglindit schimbările politice și rasiale ale secolului XX. Este o resursă esențială pentru istorici, coregrafi și spectatori care vor să descopere povestea din spatele sunetului inconfundabil al pantofilor de tap.

Despre autor

Constance Valis Hill este o personalitate polivalentă în lumea dansului: dansatoare de jazz, coregrafă și cercetătoare distinsă în studii de performanță. Expertiza sa practică este dublată de o carieră academică solidă, predând la instituții de renume precum Alvin Ailey School of American Dance și New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Contribuțiile sale editoriale în Dance Magazine și Village Voice au consacrat-o ca o voce autoritară în critica de dans. Prin lucrările sale, ea continuă să exploreze și să documenteze formele de dans vernaculare americane, fiind recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a îmbina analiza istorică cu înțelegerea fizică a mișcării.

Descriere

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap—the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover. In Tap Dancing America, Constance Valis Hill, herself an accomplished jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar, begins with a dramatic account of a buck dance challenge between Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Harry Swinton at Brooklyn's Bijou Theatre, on March 30, 1900, and proceeds decade by decade through the 20th century to the present day. She vividly describes tap's musical styles and steps—from buck-and-wing and ragtime stepping at the turn of the century; jazztapping to the rhythms of hot jazz, swing, and bebop in the '20s, '30s and '40s; to hip-hop-inflected hitting and hoofing in heels (high and low) from the 1990s right up to today. Tap was long considered "a man's game," and Hill's is the first history to highlight such outstanding female dancers as AdaOverton Walker, Kitty O'Neill, and Alice Whitman, at the turn of the 20th century, as well as the pioneering women composers of the tap renaissance, in the 70s and 80s, and the hard-hitting rhythm-tapping women of the millennium such as Chloe Arnold, Ayodele Casel, Michelle Dorrance, and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards. Written with all the verve and grace of tap itself, drawing on eye-witness accounts of early performances as well as interviews with today's greatest tappers, and richly illustrated with over ninety images, Tap Dancing America fills a major gap in American dance history and places tap firmly center stage.

Notă biografică

Constance Valis Hill is a jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and highly respected scholar of performance studies whose writings have appeared in Dance Magazine, Village Voice, Dance Research Journal, Studies in Dance History, and Discourses in Dance. She studied tap dance with Charles "Cookie" Cook and various members of the Copasetics; performed as one member of the tap-dancing Doilie Sisters; and directed "Sole Sisters" for theChanging Times Tap Company. Her book, Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers (2000), received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. She is a Five College Professor of Dance at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Recenzii

Hill's prose brings to life the visceral thrill that a well-executed virtuosic tap routine or improvisation can impart. Her work here will inspire readers
A great source of reference for Tap Dance culture and history, Tap Dancing America accumulates stories and articles in attempts to capture the essence of this elusive oral tradition. An important read. I highly recommend it!
With breath that is bated we all have awaited the arrival of this book. Spanning the gaps and the taps across the ages and the stages of time, covering the various aspects of the art of this American dance form, Ms. Valis Hill has guided us through a definitive full-of-life exploration into the world of Terpsichore. It's a hard book to put down and calls out to you with its inclusion and accuracy whether it be about the dance patterns, the personal or the historical dates and times. With his love of dance and dancers my grandfather would have been most proud to be included within these pages.
Comprehensive and compelling, Tap Dancing America places race, gender, individual innovation, and rhythm at the center of American dance history. Carefully researched and eminently readable, this landmark volume will inspire generations to explore a legacy of tap dancing as corporeal evidence of Afro-Irish fusion. Constance Valis Hill brings intellectual breadth and an abiding love for the dance and its dancers to this invaluable and definitive project.
Tap Dancing America casts new light on the hurly burly of class, culture, race and gender that fused into one of America's most original and popular arts. An indispensible resource for anyone interested in American culture."-Sali Ann Kriegsman, Modern Dance in America: The Bennington Years
This handy source for tap history and personalities packs in lots of info.
Brimming with info and energy...a fresh perspective that communicates the vibrancy of this art form with all its twists and turns, engaging readers in the complex history of its American life. A spectacular achievement!
This will be an invaluable resource for those interested in US cultural history and the history of dance in general, as well as the tap dance genre itself. Summing up: Essential.
Hill is not only an accomplished tap dance historian (and performer), but an extremely descriptive and passionate writer; she is able to paint a colorful and dynamic picture for her reader...That is what makes Tap Dancing America: a Cultural History such a compelling read.
By book's end, the reader will come away with an understanding of tap dance in the way one would expect from a similar study on American painting, opera or jazz. Hill writes with authority, yet in a voice that welcomes readers at all levels of knowledge...Tap Dancing America will bring the conversation around to tap, and perhaps even bring another generation into the tradition Savion Glover most recently has spotlighted.