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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, by Brian Seibert
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An Economist Best Book of 2015Â A Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award
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From the Back Cover
"Tap is America's great contribution to dance, and Brian Seibert's book gives us--at last!--a full-scale (and lively) history of its roots, its development, and its glorious achievements. An essential book!"--Robert Gottlieb, dance critic for The New York Observer and editor of Reading Dance "Brian Seibert's What the Eye Hears not only tells you all you wanted to know about tap dancing; it tells you what you never realized you needed to know. Drawing on his massive research, Seibert follows the art through its roots, its vaudeville heyday, its forays onto Broadway and into Hollywood, its decline, its renaissance, and its dissemination beyond American shores. And he recounts all this in an easygoing style, providing vibrant descriptions of the dancing itself and illuminating commentary by those masters who could make a floor sing."--Deborah Jowitt, author of Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance and Time and the Dancing Image
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Product details
Hardcover: 624 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865479534
ISBN-13: 978-0865479531
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.8 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
29 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#175,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is a masterful history of tap. He weaves together so much: the roots of dances from slavery in America, Irish clubbing, early Blackface minstrel shows, actual Black minstrel shows and a whole array of dancers. He focuses on the art of Henri Cole, the Nicolas brothers, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Gregory Hines and Savion Glover and many, many others. Seibert is a dance critic for the New York Times and "What the Eye Hears" reflects that fact. Astaire and Rogers remain at the pinnacle. Gene Kelly not so much. He seems taken back by Glover, greatness mixed with - at times - a bad attitude. He lauds what is available on YouTube, as I sit back and watch perfection -- Astaire and Powell tapping to Cole Potter's "Begin the Beguine." For anyone who loves dance, this book is an essential. One other plus: the photographs are amazing.
What the Eye Hears: a History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert (2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hard bound, 624 pages with photos: $23Fascinating, well-written fun (and jargon-free), Seibert’s definitive history and informed consideration about percussive dance offers more than its subtitle promises. Percussive dance found stages in minstrelsy, revue, vaudeville, jazz clubs, musical comedy, movies and television; in writing about tap, Brian Seibert places it within social history and show business. And much of what he tells us as a fellow tapper, dance reviewer and chronicler is not only how the eye hears but how we who attend dance respond to what we see and hear as our muscles and tendons contract, expand and nearly stomp and soar. In my opinion, this book is also a caution to those who are merely academic theorists: if you can’t do it, don’t know it in your bones and heart: don’t try to write about it.What the Eye Hears is one big bargain of a book, in quality and quantity. I would not be surprised to find the publishers raising the price following this initial offering.Frank Cullen; co-founder of American Vaudeville Museum; author of Vaudeville,Old & New: an Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America
A much welcomed addition to the still scant historical literature on tap dance. Seibert is not only a dance critic but is a tap dancer himself. He has not only immersed himself in the art's history but is able to apply his own critical insight to those developments in the form that he has witnessed.
A big book. I assumed in 600 or so pages that a book about tap dance would have clattered on and on about Gene Kelly, but no. Kelly gets scant mention and -- guess what? -- Brian Seibert is right. It was an eye opener. This book is populated by long lost names and talents. Do yourself a favor, read the book with YOUTUBE close by. There are snippets all over of these great folks (Peg Leg Bates -- yes, a one-legged tap dancer who started before radio and was still dancing on the Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin shows).I am thrilled to have gone through this book, glad to have seen my eyes open to the real history of tap
I am only half way through this book and I'd thought I'd take a break and write a short review.What the Eye Hears is an astonishing work of scholarship and even better a remarkably entertaining read. More importantly it's a timely piece of scholarship that brings perspective to not only the art of tap, but to how oppressed people blend their cultures through the language of art...in this case tap dancing. On one level Seibert is telling us the untold story of America, a theme I did not expect to find in a book about tap dancing. This book isn't a fog of facts so don't be put off by its length. It's a good read, full of humor, joy and triumph. This is one book I'll read twice.
I've just started the book, so it's a bit early to give an overall rating, but I like it so far and loved learning about the shim sham. It may be the "national anthem of tap dancing" as the author says but I hadn't heard of it before. Went on Youtube and am starting to learn it.
This is a masterpiece but an easy read for it really is the encyclopedia of the history of tap dancing. Makes you want to watch old tap dance movies and get yourself up and tap.
Great gift for the tapper who likes to know their history.Well written.
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