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      To learn even more, you can now sign up as a member and get special videos, information and invitations to special events. Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America,…

    December 10, 2021

    WHAF

    Harlem, New York City, United States
    African American oral traditions, Alice Austen House, American dance styles, Baby Edwards Hunt, Bill bojangles Robinson, Black female hoofers, Bushwick Open Studio, Cab Calloway, Cholly Atkins, Cora LaRedd, Cotton Clubs, dragging, Duke Ellington, Edwina Salt Evelyn, Fats Waller, flat-footed gliding, Florence Mills, Harlem Renaissance, Hooray for Love, Irish culture, Jeni LeGon, Jewel Pepper Welch, Lang Sisters, Lena Horne, Lois Bright Miller, Louis Armstrong, Ludie Jones, ragged tunes, Roaring Twenties, shuffling steps, syncopated jig tunes, The Three Poms, USO tours, West African culture, Whitman Sisters
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