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  • What the Eye Hears

    A History of Tap Dancing

    by Brian Seibert ...
    Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower

    My Life (without the boring bits)

    by Paul Hogan ...
    The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bitsPaul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switchboard lit up, he was invited back. So popular was he with viewers, Hogan became a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Australia According To Hoges

    Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER

    by Paul Hogan ...
    Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down UnderPaul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, and while it hasn't always been a walk in the park, Hoges reckons this mixed-up mob of old and new inhabitants works most ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tap Dancing with the Devil

    by Faith Gibson ...
    A rookie cop with his whole life ahead of him. Three cops with something to hide. There is no time limit on revenge.Ryan "Cass" Cassidy, a young, rookie cop and all-around good guy, has it all. Beautiful wife, job he loves, and a baby on the way. Sentenced to thirty years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, he loses it all. Framed by the men who were supposed to have his back.Thirteen years ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers: The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

    by Bernard M. Patten ...
    If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brotherhood in Rhythm

    The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

    by Constance Valis Hill ...
    When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance--a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee--was dazzling. Though ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tap Dancing in the Shed Row

    by Ronda Hutchinson ...
    A sweet farm girl leaves abusive parents and then an abusive husband to set herself on a road to success of becoming a jockey. Along the way, she encounters a couple that accept her and her daughter as family, and grows to love a man that must face and stand up to his father. Because of her patience and unique communication with horses, she calms a temperamental colt and gains his confidence to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers

    The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

    by Bernard M. Patten ...
    If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers

    The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

    by Bernard M. Patten ...
    Narrated by Gregory V. Diehl ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 4 min

    If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Brotherhood in Rhythm

    The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

    by Constance Valis Hill ...
    Narrated by Greg Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance-a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee-was dazzling. Though ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

  • Tap Dancing to Work

    Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013

    by Carol J. Loomis ...
    Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable— and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat for it all.When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor—nor that she and Buffett would quickly become close personal friends. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tap Dancing America

    A Cultural History

    by Constance Valis Hill ...
    Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne ... Read more

    $44.99 USD