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Brotherhood in Rhythm : The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers - Constance Valis Hill

Brotherhood in Rhythm

The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers

By: Constance Valis Hill

Paperback | 23 April 2002

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They were two of the most explosive dancers of the twentieth century, dazzling audiences with daredevil splits, slides, and hair-raising flips. But they were also highly sophisticated dancers, refining a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith. They were Fayard and Harold Nicholas, two American masters masterfully portrayed in this new dual biography by Constance Valis Hill.
In Brotherhood in Rhythm, Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colorful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style.
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Patiently, accurately, warmly and quite intelligibly, Constance Valis Hill guides the reader through the Nicholas brothers' career, number by number, positioning them within both white and black theatrical traditions, which she authoritatively delineates. -- Mindy Aloff * The New York Times *
Hill's book, one of the few sustained analyses of tap, supplies the background-minstrelsy, 'class' acts, swing-and, along the way, a history of American racism...It also tells a love story. * The New Yorker *
A natural for dance enthusiasts, this is also essential reading for anyone interested in entertainment history. * Library Journal *

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