Tappin' at the Apollo: The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476662703 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Selected as National Dance Educator of the Year in 2000, she has toured the U.S. Willis's doctoral work in dance focused on African American studies and children's dance. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. Cheryl M. . and Canada presenting workshops on creative dance, and has published extensively on tap dance and creative movement
Their exuberant tap style, usually performed by men, earned them the respect of their male peers and the acclaim of audiences. In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "Salt" Evelyn and Jewel "Pepper" Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. Based on extensive interviews with Salt and Pepper, this book chronicles for the first time the lives and careers of two overlooked female performers who succeeded despite the racism, sexism and homophobia of the Big Band era.. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem's Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl "Fatha" Hines
It is a fantastic social and cultural study of the era Gregory Allen Tyson This book is the one to read if one wants to learn about Black American dancers in the first half of the 20th century. The pictures are rare and the accompanying commentary accurately explains the dance scene at that time. It is a fantastic social and cultural study of the era.
Selected as National Dance Educator of the Year in 2000, she has toured the U.S. . and Canada presenting workshops on creative dance, and has published extensively on tap dance and creative movement. About the AuthorCheryl M. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. Willis's doctoral work in dance focused on African American studies and children's dance