Between beats : the jazz tradition and black vernacular dance / Christi Jay Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Christi Jay, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and dance--History--United States--20th century.

Music and dance.

Jazz dance.

Jazz--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Between Beats' explores the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. It aims to show how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development, but it also investigates the processes through which jazz music came to earn a reputation as a 'legitimate' art form better suited for still, seated listening.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note about Language

On the Cover Art

1. Jazz Music and Its Choreographies of Listening

2. "Its Bite and Its Feeling": The Quadroon Ball and Jazz's New Orleans Pla ç age Complex

3. "Lindy Hopper's Delight": The Chick Webb Orchestra and the Fluid Labor of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

4. "Counter- Bopaganda" and "Torn Riffs": Bebop as Popular Dance Music

5. "A Fine Art in Danger": Marshall Stearns's Jazz Dance Advocacy

6. Dancing Every Note: Community Theater and Kinetic Memory at Jazz 966

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-755930-1

0-19-755931-X

0-19-755929-8

OCLC:

1200038759