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Swing Dancing

出版	Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011-04-07
主題	Performing Arts / Dance / GeneralSocial Science / Popular CulturePerforming Arts / Theater / General
ISBN	03133751869780313375187
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EunEEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Telling a riveting true story of the emergence and development of an American icon, this book traces swing dancing from its origins to its status as a modern-day art form.

From its unlikely origins in the African slave trade, one of the saddest chapters of American history, swing dance emerged as a celebration of the soul. Swing is now recognized around the globe as a joyous partnered dance, uniquely Afro-American in origin and an American treasure.

This book examines how the original swing style of the 1920s, the Lindy Hop, branched out and evolved with the changing dynamics of popular culture, paralleling the development of the nation. Swing Dancing covers the dance through the years of minstrelsy, the jazz age, the big band era, bebop, and the decline of partnered dancing in the 1960s. Swing experts and instructors Tamara and Erin Stevens have combined a compelling historic examination of swing dance with an assortment of riveting personal interviews and photographic documentation to create a comprehensive reference book on this important art form.