{"product_id":"america-dancing-9780300201314","title":"America Dancing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As signifying dancers, men and women fly out of this deep, long-nurtured book. In clear and sensual prose, Megan Pugh has fashioned a history of modern America in gestures and movement. The pages never hold still.\"\u003cbr\u003e GREIL MARCUS, author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReal Life Rock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- Greil Marcus\u003cbr\u003e“With her locomotive prose, virtuosic analysis, and acrobatic storytelling, Megan Pugh brings America's most dazzling dancers stair-tapping and moonwalking back to life.  With profound historical insight, she also shows how these gravity-defying heroes made their highwire crossings – between ‘high’ and ‘low’ taste, between classes and races – only \u003ci\u003elook\u003c\/i\u003e like a cakewalk.  \u003ci\u003eAmerica Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e is more exhilarating, and more revealing, than cultural history has a right to be.”\u003cbr\u003e JOHN BECKMAN, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e -- John Beckman\u003cbr\u003e\"This history  sizzles, glides, soars, skitters, hammers, taps, and leaps through decades as well as diverse dance forms, from the worlds of cinema to Broadway,  ballet and beyond.   An exciting, important book!\"\u003cbr\u003e PEGGY and MURRAY SCHWARTZ, authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus\u003c\/i\u003e -- Peggy and Murray Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\"Although Pugh's scholarship is considerable, she is writing not for a scholarly but for a general audience. . . . The author has a dancer's grace in the flow of her prose. . . . Pugh gracefully dances the fine line between critic and fan.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Pugh handles dance as an art form and its historical context with equal deftness. She builds her book around the personal stories of some of the biggest names in American dance. . . . Not only does Pugh draw sometimes unexpected connections among them and place them within her larger story, she also describes their dancing so vividly that readers will want to see the dances themselves.\"—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003e\"Valuable, original, refreshing, wide-ranging. . . . Ms. Pugh’s writing is excellent, and the book is mind opening. To an invaluable extent, it’s about the influences of African-Americans on American dance. . . . The breadth and wealth of information often dazzle. . . . This book alters and enriches American dance history. It doesn’t change the record of what happened when; instead, it revises our sense of how things came to pass.\"—Alastair Macaulay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e -- Alastair Macaulay * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"Pugh executes some fancy footwork of her own; and like Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson taking flight up a flight of stairs (and back down again), Pugh nimbly keeps step with a chronology that’s given to doubling back abruptly and leaping forward.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e * Boston Globe *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401528484183,"sku":"9780300201314","price":26.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/america-dancing-9780300201314","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}