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Plenty of good women dancers : African American women hoofers from Philadelphia / produced by Debora Kodish and Barry Dornfeld ; directed by Germaine Ingram, Debora Kodish and Barry Dornfeld.
LIBRA DVD 002 240
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jordan, Hortense Allan.
- Hunt, Edith, 1896-.
- Hunt, Edith.
- Spencer, Libby.
- Tap dancing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Tap dancing.
- Tap dancing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Tap dancers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Tap dancers.
- Women dancers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Women dancers.
- Philadelphia Tap Initiative.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Folklore Project, [2004]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Traces the history of Philadelphia-area African American women tap dancers. Features Hortense Allan Jordan, Edith "Baby Edwards" Hunt, and Libby Spencer.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Charlotte Blake Alston.
- Credits:
- Camera, Barry Dornfeld ; editors, Barry Dornfeld and Debora Kodish.
- Notes:
- [P]art of the Philadelphia Tap Initiative, a series of programs initiated by Germaine Ingram and carried out by the Philadelphia Folklore Project."--end credits.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0964493764
- OCLC:
- 60350356
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