Ebook {Epub PDF} What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert

Brian Seibert is the author of What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing (FSG, ), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Since , he has been a dance critic and features writer for The New York Times, and he has contributed to The New Yorker since His reviews, features, and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, The Los .  · “What the Eye Hears” is the title Brian Seibert gives his big, smart, wonderfully anecdotal and definitive history of tap dance. Both eyes and ears are needed to Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian .

"What the Eye Hears" is the title Brian Seibert gives his big, smart, wonderfully anecdotal and definitive history of tap dance. Both eyes and ears are needed to get the full effect of tap. What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing Brian Seibert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (p) ISBN Buy this book New York Times dance critic Seibert. THE DANIEL GEROULD MEMORIAL LECTURE Monday, November 23 Segal Theatre pm Performance + Discussion. FREE + Open to public. First come, first served. Join us in celebrating New York Times dance critic Brian Seibert's What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, a new book on the history of tap dance, which illuminates tap's complex origins and theatricalization.

-- Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits. Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York.