Atkins / Malone Class Act

The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-50412-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkins, Cholly

Malone, Jacqui

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Going North
2. The Rhythm Pals
3. Cholly and Dotty
4. Struttin' for Uncle Sam
5. Coles and Atkins
6. The End of Our Road
7. Rhythm Tap and More
8. In Walked Maye
9. Hitsville, U.S.A.
10. Back to Freelancing
11. The Way I Do the Things I Do
12. Black and Blue
Epilogue
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cholly Atkins has been a jazz dance artist, choreographer, and director of stage acts for decades. He has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many dance organizations.

Jacqui Malone, who began interviewing Cholly Atkins in 1988, was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship to write this book. Author of Steppin'on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, she is a professor of drama, theater, and dance at Queens College.