Modern Moves: Dancing Race During the Ragtime and Jazz Eras

by Danielle Robinson

Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199779228
• ISBN13: 9780199779222
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"