Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Rhythm Preserves the Spirit
2. From Jim Crow to Master Juba
3. White and Black Minstrelsy
4. Aida Overton Walker: Queen of the Cakewalk
5. Alice Whitman: Queen of Taps
6. Tappin’ in Time
7. Clubbin’ in Harlem
8. Let’s Swing
9. “Candi”: Improvised Rhythms
10. “Baby Edwards”: A Legend in Her Own Time
11. Ludie Jones
12. Louise Madison: A Dancer’s Dancer
13. Jeni LeGon
14. Lois Bright
15. “Pepper”
16. “Salt”: Little Lady of Taps
17. Edwards Sisters
18. Juanita Pitts
19. Delno Polk Bailey
20. Isabelle “Eleanor Byrd” Fambro
21. Black Tap: Decline and Resurgence
22. And Now
23. In Retrospect
Glossary of Dance and Music
Appendix I: A Few More Women Dancers
Appendix II: Performers Who Blazed the Trail
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cheryl M. Willis’s doctoral work in dance focused on African American studies and children’s dance. Selected as National Dance Educator of the Year in 2000, she has toured the U.S. and Canada presenting workshops on creative dance, and has published extensively on tap dance and creative movement. She lives in Vancouver, Washington.
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