Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Stearns, Marshall

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306805530)

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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Stearns, Marshall

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

$21.00
Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Stearns, Marshall

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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"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


Author: Marshall Stearns, Jean Stearns
ISBN-10: 0306805537
ISBN-13: 9780306805530
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/1994
Pages: 508
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d
By Marshall Stearns
By Marshall Stearns
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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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