Jumping the color line : vernacular jazz dance in American film, 1929-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trenka, Susie (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Barnet, Hertfordshire : John Libbey Publishing Ltd, [2021]
Subjects:	Jazz dance > History. African American dancers > History. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. > History. African Americans in motion pictures. Racism and the arts > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Jazz dance on the silver screen: race, gender, genre
Doomed divas: Black dancing women in early sound film
Kids and class acts: male dancers in Black-cast music shorts
Potential pioneer: the film career of Black tap dancer Jeni LeGon
Jumpin' at the jukebox, dancin' in the street: dance, race, and space in 1940s soundies
Harlem to Hollywood: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and the crossover success of a Black dance
"A savage exhibition"? Swing and White youth culture in B movies
Dance history, the swing dance revival, and vintage movies in the digital age.