Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.

Author: Na Na, Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/04/2002
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.14h x 6.08w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780312294434

About the Author
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body, is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University, USA, and a former senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She lectures nationally and internationally, using her own dancing/thinking body to illustrate her ideas and blur the division between practice and theory. She is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.