Jumping the Color Line: Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929-1945 AUTH-14151664 connecting the Black Prairie cotton

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Jumping the Color Line: Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929-1945 AUTH-14151664 connecting the Black Prairie cottonFrom the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in specialty acts and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal point of American race relations. Looking at