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Author | : Zeese Papanikolas |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-08-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0804795398 |
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The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless new world of railroads, factories, and skyscrapers where old assumptions were being challenged and new values had yet to be created. In An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World, Zeese Papanikolas tells the lively and entertaining story of a diverse group of figures in the arts and sciences who inhabited this new America. Just as ragtime composers subverted musical expectations by combining European march timing with African syncopation, so this book's protagonists—who range from Emily Dickinson to Thorstein Veblen and from Henry and William James to Charles Mingus—interrogated the modern American world through their own "syncopations" of cultural givens. The old antebellum slave dance, the cakewalk, with its parody of the manners and pretensions of the white folks in the Big House, provides a template of how the tricksters, shamans, poets, philosophers, ragtime pianists, and jazz musicians who inhabit this book used the arts of parody, satire, and disguise to subvert American cultural norms and to create new works of astonishing beauty and intellectual vigor.
Author | : Zeese Papanikolas |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780804791991 |
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The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists,and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless new world of railroads, factories, and skyscrapers where old assumptions were being challenged and new values had yet to be created. In An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World, Zeese Papanikolas tells the lively and entertaining story of a diverse group of figures in the arts and sciences who inhabited this new America. Just as ragtime composers subverted musical expectations by combining European march timing with African syncopation, so this book's protagonists—who range from Emily Dickinson to Thorstein Veblen and from Henry and William James to Charles Mingus—interrogated the modern American world through their own "syncopations" of cultural givens. The old antebellum slave dance, the cakewalk, with its parody of the manners and pretensions of the white folks in the Big House, provides a template of how the tricksters, shamans, poets, philosophers, ragtime pianists, and jazz musicians who inhabit this book used the arts of parody, satire, and disguise to subvert American cultural norms and to create new works of astonishing beauty and intellectual vigor.
Author | : Creighton Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Cakewalk (Dance) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Megan Pugh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0300216653 |
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The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael Jackson, Megan Pugh shows how freedom—that nebulous, contested American ideal—emerges as a genre-defining aesthetic. In Pugh’s account, ballerinas mingle with slumming thrill-seekers, and hoedowns show up on elite opera house stages. Steps invented by slaves on antebellum plantations captivate the British royalty and the Parisian avant-garde. Dances were better boundary crossers than their dancers, however, and the issues of race and class that haunt everyday life shadow American dance as well. Deftly narrated, America Dancing demonstrates the centrality of dance in American art, life, and identity, taking us to watershed moments when the nation worked out a sense of itself through public movement.
Author | : Robert Cone' |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781500697822 |
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The working title for this book was My Walden. It is based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Author | : Dutch Robb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2016-05-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533164308 |
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A personal memoir.
Author | : Dr. Karen Campbell Kuebler |
Publisher | : Fulton Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2022-11-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Cakewalking with Queen Aida Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explore the foot-shuffling, high-kicking, leg-marching Cakewalk Dance with the Queen of the Cakewalk: Aida Overton Walker. She started dancing as a child at her local dance studio in New York City and grew up to share her dancing and choreographic talents by touring around America and Europe from the 1890s through 1914. Walker's performances were described as theatrical, artistic, and refined. Connect with the past, learn some American history, and have fun with Queen Aida and the Cakewalk!
Author | : Creighton Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Piano Solo |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Fitzhugh Brundage |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834629 |
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Beyond Blackface
Author | : Diana R. Hallman |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1783277009 |
Download America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with and divergence from France's own Revolutionary ideals and experiences. The volume examines French views through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, and homages to the glorified figures of Washington, Franklin and Lafayette. Essays investigate paradoxical depictions of slavery in the United States and French Caribbean colonies of 'Amérique'. French critiques of American music and musicians, including the reception of Americanized or Creolized adaptations of European art traditions as well as American popular music and dance, are also presented. The subject of race features prominently in French interpretations of American music and identity. These interpretations see French constructions of the Indigenous American and African American "exotic" that intersect with tropes of noble, pastoral savagery, menacing barbarism, and the "civilizing" potency of French culture. The French reinterpretation of African American music and dance reveals both a revulsion of Black alterity and an attraction to the expressive freedom, and even subversiveness, of these "foreign" forms of music and dance. Contributions include essays by music, dance, theatre and opera scholars, and the volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of these disciplines.