Tappin' at the Apollo
Subtitle: A Career History of the African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781476662701
Subjects: Dancers; African americans
Description: "In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "Salt" Evelyn and Jewel "Pepper" Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were black show business headliners, playing Harlem's Apollo Theater. This book chronicles the lives and careers of two overlooked performers who succeeded during the Big Band era"--