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Interview with Harriet Browne
- Title
- Interview with Harriet Browne [sound recording]
- Author
- Browne, Harriet.
- Publication
- 1996.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1878 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1878 (sound cassette) reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-1878 (transcript) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Recorded Feb. 3, 1996. Ms. Browne discusses her childhood; learning tap dancing from her father; the importance of music and dance in her family's home; seeing tap dancing in vaudeville houses; the origin of tap dancing; rhythm; jazz; the South Side of Chicago in the 1930's; her favorite musicians; Nat King Cole; auditioning for the NRA Theater in Chicago; the childhood tap act with her sister Marquita called the Jordan sisters; origin of the dance shim sham; performing as a child; studying dance with the Bruce Sisters; attending social dances at the Pershing Hotel's Savoy Ballroom in Chicago; her educational background; working as a chorus girl at the Chicago's Club DeLisa; her first exposure to sand dancing; Sandman Sims; training her ear; working with musicians; listening while improvising; her improvisational process; touring; the various types of chorus line dancers; coming to New York City and performing at the Savannah Club; the decline in popularity of tap dancing in the 1950's and 1960's; teaching at the Bronx Dance Theater; her tap dance syllabus; the Aristaccato Tap Company; and Tina Pratt.
- Cassette 2. Recorded Feb. 12, 1996. Ms. Browne discusses resuming sand dancing as an adult; her childhood memories of sand dancing; how to produce particular sounds; the comparison between tap and sand dancing; discrimination against women in dance; the difference between choreographing for tap and sand; tempo; dancing to various musical styles; her participation in the tap dance revue called Sole Sisters; her ensemble of dancers and musicians called Jazzing women; and passing on the tradition of sand dancing to the next generation.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interviewed by Constance Valis-Hill at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City.
- For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-1878.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1878
- OCLC
- NYPY96-R24
- Author
- Browne, Harriet. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Harriet Browne [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1996.
- Local Note
- Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1878.Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1878.Master dubbing tape in: *MGZTD 10-1878. 2 reels.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Local Subject
- Discrimination in the performing arts.
- Added Author
- Hill, Constance Valis. InterviewerNational Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1878 [Transcript]*MGZTC 3-1878 [Cassette]