Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Tappin' at the Apollo: A Career History of the African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper

Tappin' at the Apollo: A Career History of the African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Tappin' at the Apollo A Career History of the African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Author: 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 preformed by men, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781476662701
ISBN-10: 1476662703
Publication Date: 2/14/2016
Pages: 277
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Publisher: McFarland
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review


Genres: