Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
Compiled by musician/folklorist Mike Seeger and dancer Ruth Pershing, Talking Feet introduces us to dancers from the Appalachian, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Mountain regions of the South. In its various... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1556430809
ISBN13:9781556430800
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:North Atlantic Books
Length:142 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Fun but essential to understand old time music and black dance
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
In the film associated with this book you can see a grizzled old white Mountaineer do an African animal dance, one that friends of mine have filmed folks doing in Mali today. This book is the best thing available on the old time dance traditions that once thrived in the mountains and valleys of the South, a the mix of African and European dances. This book provides not only an outsider's explanation of the dances, but tries to take as many of its words from the dancers themselves, not just about their dancing, but about their lives, and the music they dance to. Diagrams of the dancing steps are even provided at the end of the book. Those of us interested in old time music, blues, and other traditional musics forget that so much of it was born as music for folks like these to dance to. As a musician, I have learned so much from studying the dancing that the tunes I play on the banjo, fiddle, and guitar was made for. As a musicologist studying the history of black banjo music, I do not think I could have gotten as far as I have without the aid of this and other studies of Black and European-American dance. I heartily recommend the accompanying DVD of the same title which is even more fun than this book
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