Blues Dancing
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Blues Dancing
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Author : Diane McKinney-Whetstone
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Blues Dancing written by Diane McKinney-Whetstone and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
"McKinney-Whetstone uses her gift for language to weave a love story that spans more than twenty years and three lives. . . . Blues Dancing is a novel well worth curling up with a long winter’s night." —Essence From acclaimed writer Diane McKinney-Whetstone, a richly spun tale of love and passion, betrayal, redemption, and faith, set in contemporary Philadelphia. My aunt says if you smell butter on a foggy night you're getting ready to fall in love. For the last twenty years, the beautiful Verdi Mae has led a comfortable life with Rowe, the conservative professor who rescued her from addiction when she was an undergrad. But her world is about to shift when the smell of butter lingers in the air and Johnson—the boy from the back streets of Philadelphia who pulled her into the fire of passion and all the shadows cast from it—returns to town. In "this story of self-discovery that moves seamlessly between the early 1970s and early 1990s" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), McKinney-Whetstone takes readers into a world of erotic love, drugs, and political activism, and beautifully illustrates the struggle to reconcile passion with accountability and the redemptive powers of love's rediscovery. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Dancing Shoes And Honky Tonk Blues
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Author : LuAnn McLane
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-05-01
Dancing Shoes And Honky Tonk Blues written by LuAnn McLane and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Waitress Abilene Harper has always been a bit on the shy and clumsy side. So when the reality TV spoof Dancing With the Rednecks comes to Misty Creek, Kentucky, nothing could make Abby agree to participate...nothing except a fifty thousand dollar grand prize! While she doesn’t relish being laughed at, it sure would be danged sweet to buy a truck with all the trimmings, fix up the diner for her hard-workin’ mama, and send her brother to the fancy college that he deserves. Abby’s tall, dark and smokin’ hot dance instructor Rio Martin is mighty ticked when he finds out the ballroom dancing competition he signed on for is actually a joke. But Abby’s spunk and determination soon has him setting his sights on winning. He whips Abby into shape, and she begins to cha-cha and rumba her way into the heart of the TV audience, while chemistry between the unlikely couple sizzles. Rio tries to remain all business, but Abby has her eyes on the prize—and it isn’t just the money.
Steppin On The Blues
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Author : Jacqui Malone
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1996
Steppin On The Blues written by Jacqui Malone and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.
Dancing Blues
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Author : Seymour Simons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Dancing Blues written by Seymour Simons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Dance categories.
Social Partner Dance
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Author : David Kaminsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-08
Social Partner Dance written by David Kaminsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-08 with Music categories.
Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for the study of these dances, based on the premise that a thorough understanding of any lead/follow form must consider in depth how it manages the four-part relationship between self, partner, music, and surroundings. Each chapter begins with a brief vignette on a distinct dance form and explores the focused worlds of partnered dancing done for the joy and entertainment of the dancers themselves. Grounded intellectually in embodiment studies and sensory ethnography, and empirically in ethnographic fieldwork, Social Partner Dance promotes scholarship that understands the social, cultural, and political functions of partner dance through its embodied practice.
Dancing Fools And Weary Blues
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Author : Lawrence R. Broer
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1990
Dancing Fools And Weary Blues written by Lawrence R. Broer and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Often, the decade of the 1920s has been stereotyped with such labels as "The Roaring Twenties," "The Jazz Age," or "The Lost Generation." Historical perspective has forced reevaluation of this decade. Articles in this collection are presented in the most definitive anthology dealing with 1920s America. The contributors have put aside stereotypes to offer a valuable critique of the American dream during a time of major crises. Dancing Fools and Weary Blues also presents its readers a picture of the continual redemption and revitalization of that dream, and reasserts its basic democratic values.
Silver Shoes 7 Rhythm And Blues
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Author : Samantha-Ellen Bound
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2016-01-04
Silver Shoes 7 Rhythm And Blues written by Samantha-Ellen Bound and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Riley is one of the best dancers at Silver Shoes. Does this mean she will be a great teacher too? Riley has sprained her ankle playing basketball and has to miss three weeks of dancing! Sitting at home on the couch is difficult for active Riley and she decides to help out at Silver Shoes. Excitingly, Miss Caroline makes Riley her personal assistant. But is she getting carried away with her new-found role and being too bossy to her friends? And will Riley's impatience to get back out on the dance floor and master her new lyrical routine for the upcoming exam make her injury even worse?
Modern Moves
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Author : Danielle Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-29
Modern Moves written by Danielle Robinson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-29 with Music categories.
Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as the result of the co-mingling of dance traditions from different cultural and racial backgrounds in the same urban social spaces. The results of these cross-cultural collisions in New York City, as she argues, were far greater than passing dance trends; they in fact laid the foundation for the twentieth century's social dancing practices throughout the United States. By looking at dance as social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of African diasporic peoples -- even as they were excluded from its rewards. A cornerstone in Robinson's argument is the changing role of the dance instructor, which was transformed from the proprietor of a small-scale, local dance school at the end of the nineteenth century to a member of a distinct, self-identified social industry at the beginning of the twentieth. Whereas dance studies has been slow to connect early twentieth century dancing with period racial politics, Modern Moves departs radically from prior scholarship on the topic, and in so doing, revises social and African American dance history of this period. Recognizing the rac(ial)ist beginnings of contemporary American social dancing, it offers a window into the ways that dancing throughout the twentieth century has provided a key means through which diverse groups of people have navigated shifting socio-political relations through their bodily movement. Modern Moves asserts that the social practice of modern dancing, with its perceived black origins, empowered displaced people such as migrants and immigrants to grapple with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of North American modernity. Far more than simple appropriation, the selling and practicing of "black" dances during the 1910s and 1920s reinforced whiteness as the ideal racial status in America through embodied and rhetorical engagements with period black stereotypes.
Directions For Dancing The Improved Yale Blues
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928*
Directions For Dancing The Improved Yale Blues written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928* with Ballroom dancing categories.
Swing Dances
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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
Swing Dances written by Source Wikipedia and has been published by University-Press.org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Charleston, Lindy Hop, East Coast Swing, Carolina shag, Collegiate shag, Balboa, Blues dance, Big Apple, Ceroc, Jitterbug, Modern Jive, Rock and Roll, Texas Tommy, Black Bottom, Hand dancing, Bugg, LeRoc, Boogie-woogie, Doublebugg, St. Louis shag, Breakaway, Jumpin' Joe, Single Swing, Whip, Skip jive, Snowball, BRR dances. Excerpt: "Swing dance" is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate swing jazz music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today. While the majority of swing dances began in African American communities as vernacular African American dancees, some swing dances, (Balboa, for example) developed in ethnic communities. Swing jazz features the syncopated timing associated with African American and West African music and dance - a combination of crotchets and quavers (quarter notes and eighth notes) that many swing dancers interpret as 'triple steps' and 'steps' - yet also introduces changes in the way these rhythms were played - as a distinct delay or 'relaxed' approach to timing. Today there are swing-dance scenes in many countries. Lindy Hop is often the most popular, though each city and country prefers various dances to different degrees. Each local swing-dance community has a distinct local culture and defines "swing dance," and the "appropriate" music to accompany it, in different ways. In many scenes outside the United States, the term "swing dancing" is used to refer to one, or all, of the following swing era dances: Lindy Hop, Charleston, Shag, and Balboa. This group is often extended to include West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Hand Dancing, Jive, Rock and Roll, Modern Jive, and other dances developing in the...