Modern Moves
Subtitle: Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 29, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780199779215
Description: "Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between "black" and "white" cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It focuses on Manhattan, a Black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally"--
Notes: Source title: Modern Moves: Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras