Stompin' at the Savoy
The Story of Norma Miller
Candlewick Press,U.S.
Published on 24. January 2006
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-7636-2244-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
1-COLOR
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
319 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7636-2244-2 (9780763622442)
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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.
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.