Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

by Na Na and Brenda Dixon Gottschild

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The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
  • ISBN13 9780312294434
  • Publish Date 4 April 2002 (first published 20 August 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 270
  • Language English