Stompin' at the Savoy

The Story of Norma Miller
Illustrator: French, Martin / Mitwirkender: Govenar, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

The vitality, wry humor, and indomitable spirit of jazz dancer Norma Miller, one of the premier dancers during the Harlem Renaissance, is captured in this text which chronicles her early life and rise to fame as one of the original performers of the Lindy Hop. Full color.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 169mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780763622442
• ISBN-10: 0763622443
• Artikelnr.: 21316702

Autorenporträt

Norma Miller got her start as a professional dancer as a teenager, when she was invited to join the swing dance troupe, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. By the late 1930s, the Lindy Hoppers were internationally renowned. In 2003, the National Endowment for the Arts honored Norma Miller with a National Heritage Fellowship, the highest form of federal recognition for folk and traditional artists in America. Norma Miller lives in Florida, where she continues to teach, choreograph, dance, and "swing, baby, swing!" Alan Govenar is a filmmaker, photographer, folklorist, and writer. In 1985, he founded Documentary Arts, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting new perspectives on different cultures. He has authored numerous books, including Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter, winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in Nonfiction. Alan's friendship and conversations with Norma Miller began in 2001. Those conversations formed the foundation of this oral autobiography. Alan Govenar lives in Texas. Martin French is an award-winning artist who has provided illustrations for the 2005 Grammy Awards, for jazz festivals and for several children's books including The Scarecrow's Dance and Sophisticated Ladies. He lives in Oregon, USA.