Mr Bojangles Dance

Author : Leo Dillon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590478830
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rap a Tap Tap written by Leo Dillon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time. A brief Afterword outlines his career.

Author : James Haskins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Bojangles written by James Haskins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first biography of Bill Bojangles Robinson, the most famous tap dancer who ever lived. Written with the cooperation of many of Bill Robinson's friends and colleagues, it is also a fascinating account of the heyday of American musical entertainment. 16 pages of black-and-white photos.

Author : Ryan B. Case
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650551
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Bojangles, Dance written by Ryan B. Case and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men's lives, told through the story of one song. Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer and writer behind the classic hit "Mr. Bojangles," never would have expected that his song, inspired by an experience in a New Orleans jail cell, would make Richard Nixon cry, or that it would be covered by Sammy Davis, Jr., the entertainment giant and, controversially, a supporter of Nixon. This work, told through the perspective of writer, performer and listener, traces these three men's overlapping journeys through the American consciousness. Chapters discuss the history of Walker's song, Davis's rise from rags to riches, Nixon's journey from grocer's son to president, and more.

Author : Olivier Bourdeaut
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501175092
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Bojangles written by Olivier Bourdeaut and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

Author : Brian Seibert
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429947616
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Eye Hears written by Brian Seibert and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it was probably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in American Notes for General Circulation) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancers both well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy.What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.

Author : Ryan B. Case
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476692882
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Bojangles, Dance written by Ryan B. Case and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men's lives, told through the story of one song. Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer and writer behind the classic hit "Mr. Bojangles," never would have expected that his song, inspired by an experience in a New Orleans jail cell, would make Richard Nixon cry, or that it would be covered by Sammy Davis, Jr., the entertainment giant and, controversially, a supporter of Nixon. This work, told through the perspective of writer, performer and listener, traces these three men's overlapping journeys through the American consciousness. Chapters discuss the history of Walker's song, Davis's rise from rags to riches, Nixon's journey from grocer's son to president, and more.

Author : Jim Haskins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Bojangles written by Jim Haskins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meghan Engsberg Cunningham
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502610744
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill “Bojangles” Robinson written by Meghan Engsberg Cunningham and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was known for his incredible dancing skills, but there was so much more to him. Learn about his life, his tap dancing, and his influence during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-06-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author : Laurence Maslon
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9781423491033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway written by Laurence Maslon and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A companion to the six-part PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical is the first comprehensive history of the musical, from its roots at the turn of the 20th century through the smashing successes of the new millennium. The in-depth text is lavishly illustrated with a treasure trove of photographs, sheet-music covers, posters, scenic renderings, production stills, rehearsal shots and caricatures, many previously unpublished. Revised and updated, with a brand-new foreword by Julie Andrews and new material on all the Broadway musicals through the 2009-2010 season.