Oyceter's review
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
An excellent overview of how race worked during the swing era, particularly for dancers. I was particularly interested in the bits about cultural appropriation (a lot) and monetary recompense (ha!), and how black arts consistently were taken over by white people, who made more money than black people ever got to, then were coded as white, completely taking black involvement out of them. Angry-making and necessary.
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