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  • Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers
    Cheryl M. Willis
    While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their s...
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  • Tappin’ at the Apollo
    Cheryl M. Willis
    In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina 'Salt' Evelyn and Jewel 'Pepper' Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem’s Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl 'Fatha' Hines. Their exuberant tap style, usually performed by men, earned them the respect of the...
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