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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance was written by Marshall Stearns, Jean Stearns, published in 1968 by Macmillan.

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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

Marshall Stearns, Jean Stearns · Macmillan · 1968 · Originally in English

Oral history of American vernacular dance from vaudeville and Harlem hoofers who shaped Broadway.

About the author

Marshall Stearns was a jazz historian and educator who recognized the urgency of recording dance history from living practitioners. Working with his wife Jean Stearns, he conducted extensive interviews across the United States, prioritizing accessibility and the voices of performers themselves over theoretical apparatus. The Stearns' approach—meeting dancers where they were, asking them to describe their own work—became a model for vernacular dance scholarship.

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