Waltzing in the dark
Subtitle: African American vaudeville and race politics in the swing era
By: Brenda Dixon Gottschild.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Webb, Margot; Norton and Margot (Dance team); African American dancers -- Biography; Women dancers -- United States -- Biography; Vaudeville -- Social aspects
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The race trope in swing era performance; title: 2. From Marjorie to Margot; title: 3. "You didn't go downtown : everything was uptown": Harlem, U.S.A.; title: 4. Who's got his own: Black creativity as commodity; title: 5. Color and caste in black and white: performing at home and abroad; title: 6. Coda to a dream deferred; title: 7. Legacy: all that jazz; title: Chronology: Margot Webb's professional career.