Description: Further DetailsTitle: Class ActCondition: NewSubtitle: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly AtkinsAuthor: Jacqui Malone, Cholly AtkinsFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231123655EAN: 9780231123655ISBN: 9780231123655Publisher: Columbia University PressGenre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: BiographyRelease Date: 04/09/2003Description: Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, Cholly created the new specialization of "vocal choreography," teaching rhythm-and-blues singers how to perform their music by adding rhythmical dance steps drawn from twentieth-century American dance, from the Charleston to rhythm tap. For the burgeoning Motown record label, Cholly taught such artists as the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Marvin Gaye to command the stage in ways that would enhance their performances and "sell" their songs. Class Act tells of Cholly's boyhood and coming of age, his entry into the dance world of New York City, his performing triumphs and personal tragedies, and the career transformations that won him gold records and a Tony for choreographing Black and Blue on Broadway.Chronicling the rise, near demise, and rediscovery of tap dancing, the book is both an engaging biography and a rich cultural history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 241mmItem Length: 165mmRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Class Act
Title: Class Act
Subtitle: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins
ISBN-10: 0231123655
EAN: 9780231123655
ISBN: 9780231123655
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 04/09/2003
Release Year: 2003
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Class Act : the Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Dance / Jazz, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Genres & Styles / Dance, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Item Length: 0.6 in
Subject Area: Music, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Jacqui Malone, Cholly Atkins
Item Width: 0.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
