THDA 463 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coffee Preparation, Circle Dance, Sherman H. Dudley
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Chapter 3: road shows, vaudeville, toba, sophisticated indoor shows, tom shows, plant shows. In old kentucky: infamous show in 1900, flimsy plot. Tabloid shows, shortened versions of vaudeville shows: at intermission, they would open up the stage for an open dance contest. 1929: 80 theatres in the circuit; 1932: toba is dead. It introduced the second african american dance to sweep the country called ballin" the jack (snake hip like dance performed in chain) Other dances like the texas tommy (the precursor to the lindy) and the. The show would widen the gap even further from minstrelsy. A plot was introduced: shuffle along (1921) Eccentric dance: the stage was set for an explosion of culture. Population of 200,000 in 1930: white vaudeville, 4 types. Comic eccentric dancer (marland dixon and ray bolger) Pseudo classical toe acts (adelaide and hughes: chorus girls become all the rage.
