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Dance crazes always make the wheels of social activity spin. From generation to generation, popular culture has been expressed most vividly by social dancing: The waltz and two step; Ragtime: The turkey trot and Grizzly bear; The tango, castle walk and fox trot; The charleston, black bottom and shimmy; Marathon dancing and the big bands; The lindy, samba and mambo; The cha cha and rock 'n' roll; America bandstand, the twist and the frug; Disco: the...

In this insightful new book, Mark Franko explores the many genres of theatrical dancing during the radical decade of the 1930s and their relationship to labor movements, including Fordist and unionist organizational structures, the administrative structures of the Federal Dance and Theatre Project, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and the Communist Party. Franko shows how the structures of labor organization were reproduced and acted...

In 1937, the nation struggled to recover from the Great Depression. Americans from every background let loose in the Big Apple circle dance, memorialized by Frankie Manning's choreography for Harlem dancers in the film "Keep Punching." This documentary portrays the Big Apple craze from its discovery in Columbia, South Carolina, and explores its African ceremonial roots. As this video reveals, the Big Apple was a unifying experience that provided joy...

German Lineage In Modern Dance: Solos by Wigman, Hoyer, Holm, Nikolais, Louis celebrates the legacy of modern dance that started in Germany before World War I and expanded into new dimensions in the United States in the late 20th century. The influence of German Expression Dance, or Ausdruckstanz, has spanned decades and spread to diverse areas globally. Works of each choreographer are highlighted through solos, narration and original photographs....

"In pictures and words, the definitive guide to the music, the fashion, the art and the dance of hip hop: the most dynamic, subversive subculture in America since the 60s"--Cover.

In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, aide to MLK and university scholar, musically demonstrates with a 100-member choir how Black Americans wrote their true history in musical notes and explains how Black music made American music.