What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

by Brian Seibert

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"The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in America. Most dance arises from an interaction between music and movement. Tap is both dancing to music and dancing as music. We don't just watch it; we hear its rhythms and feel them in our muscles and bones. Like jazz, tap was born in the United States. It's a hybrid of traditional African dances brought over by slaves and jig, clog, and other folk-dance forms from the British Isles. Brian Seibert's magisterial history illuminates tap's complex origins and its theatricalization...Read more
  • ISBN10 0865479534
  • ISBN13 9780865479531
  • Publish Date 17 November 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 August 2023
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 624
  • Language English