Book Description
"This book is about Rock 'n' Roll Dances of the 1950s"--
Author : Lisa Jo Sagolla
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313365563
"This book is about Rock 'n' Roll Dances of the 1950s"--
Author : Derek Young
Publisher :
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN : 9780950847009
Author : Lisa Jo Sagolla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313365571
This descriptive and analytic study examines how 1950s rock 'n' roll dancing illuminates the larger cultural context out of which the dancing arose. Rock 'n' Roll Dances of the 1950s provides a fresh, highly animated lens through which to observe and understand the cultural climate of 1950s America, examining, not only the steps and aesthetic qualities of rock 'n' roll dances, but also their emblematic meanings. Exploring dance as a reflection and expression of cultural trends, the book takes a sharply analytical look at rock 'n' roll dances from the birth of the genre in the mid-1950s to the decade's end. Readers will explore the emergence of teen culture in the '50s, rock 'n' roll's association with delinquency, and the controversy ignited by the physical movements of early rock 'n' roll artists. They will learn about the influence of black culture on 1950s dances and about the trendsetting TV show American Bandstand. Particularly telling for those wishing to grasp the underlying tensions of the decade is a discussion of the dance floor as a platform for racial integration.
Author : David Reyes
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN :
Reyes and Waldman tell the stories of Chicano rock music in Southern California and the musicians who continue to make pop music with a Latin beat.
Author : Derek Young
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN : 9780950847016
Author : Paul Bottomer
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781859672266
Enlivening and inspiring, this book is guaranteed to get you out of the armchair and onto the dance floor, spinning and stomping to the hypnotic rhythms of the world's most popular dance music.
Author : Aleksander Marlevi
Publisher :
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN : 9789178101108
Author : Mark Fenemore
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857452290
A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a conflict developed between the culture they inherited from their parents and the new official culture taught in schools. Merging with street gangs, new youth cultures took shape, which challenged authority and provided an alternative vision of modernity. Taking their fashion cues, music and icons from the West, they rapidly came into conflict with a didactic and highly controlling party-state. Charting the clashes which occurred between teenage rebels and the authorities, the book explores what happened when gender, sexuality, Nazism, communism and rock 'n' roll collided during a period, which also saw the building of the Berlin Wall.
Author : Rita Storey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2007-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597710510
Provides step-by-step instructions for different dances, including the jive and the twist.
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300190301
The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”—The Washington Post Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers