Blues & Jazz Dance Education
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Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader
by:
Julie Malnig
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 4. 
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Krazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd)
by:
George Herriman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 6. 
Dance All Night: Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present
by:
Jean A. Boyd
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 7. 
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Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts 4.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
by:
Jacqui Malone
4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (Studies in Dance History) (Volume 19) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 28. 
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows: 2 Volumes
by:
Henry T. Sampson
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 32. 
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
by:
Alan Young
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 34. 
Black Dance in America : A History Through its People
by:
James Haskins
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by:
C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,202 ratings 38. 
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
by:
Kevin Phinney
4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings 40. 
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
by:
Chris Smith
3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America
by:
Robert C. Toll
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings 43. 
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by:
Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings 43. 
Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans (Volume 8) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940
by:
Robin D. Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 48. 
The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz (The New Grove Series)
by:
Paul Oliver
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 48. 
Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950
by:
Frank Driggs
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings 50. 
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
by:
Kyra D. Gaunt
3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
by:
Robert Darden
4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
by:
Yuval Taylor
3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
by:
Dena J. Epstein
4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
by:
Lynn Abbott
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 59. 
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 60. 
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
by:
Paul Garon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 62. 
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
by:
Mark R. Jones
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
by:
Tim Brooks
4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
by:
Ann Powers
3.76 avg rating — 451 ratings 69. 
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
by:
William J. Mahar
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Tappin' at the Apollo: The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
by:
Cheryl M. Willis
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
by:
Phil Jamison
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
by:
Sherrie Tucker
3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings 76. 
Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-girl Dance Band 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
by:
Mark F. Dewitt
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 78. 
Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada
by:
Anthony Shay
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
by:
Tim Lawrence
4.52 avg rating — 574 ratings 81. 
Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
by:
Mike Seeger
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
by:
Guido Van Rijn
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 89. 
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
by:
Robert Palmer
4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings 
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
by:
Howard Reich
4.18 avg rating — 83 ratings 93. 
Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel
by:
Howard Reich
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
by:
Peter C. Muir
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 97. 
Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956 - 2004
by:
Samuel Charters
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings 98. 
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