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- catalog abstract ""This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African American performers working during the swing era - roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as a tour guide and barometer of the times on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, separate black and white Americas, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11647846.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African American performers working during the swing era - roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as a tour guide and barometer of the times on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, separate black and white Americas, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The race trope in swing era performance -- 2. From Marjorie to Margot -- 3. "You didn't go downtown : everything was uptown": Harlem, U.S.A. -- 4. Who's got his own: Black creativity as commodity -- 5. Color and caste in black and white: performing at home and abroad -- 6. Coda to a dream deferred -- 7. Legacy: all that jazz -- Chronology: Margot Webb's professional career.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-259) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 270 p., [9] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0312214189".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "African American dancers Biography.".
- catalog subject "GV1785.W393 G68 2000".
- catalog subject "Norton and Margot (Dance team)".
- catalog subject "Vaudeville Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Webb, Margot, 1910-".
- catalog subject "Women dancers United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The race trope in swing era performance -- 2. From Marjorie to Margot -- 3. "You didn't go downtown : everything was uptown": Harlem, U.S.A. -- 4. Who's got his own: Black creativity as commodity -- 5. Color and caste in black and white: performing at home and abroad -- 6. Coda to a dream deferred -- 7. Legacy: all that jazz -- Chronology: Margot Webb's professional career.".
- catalog title "Waltzing in the dark : African American vaudeville and race politics in the swing era / Brenda Dixon Gottschild.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".