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Vernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution
By Golden, Eve
- ISBN
- 978-0-81312-459-9
- Publisher
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2007
In the years before World War I, Vernon and Irene Castle launched a dance revolution. Golden (Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway) chronicles their break from tradition as they danced to lively ragtime music in fashionable settings, traveled with a black orchestra, and created such dances as the Castle walk and the Castle polka. Impeccably dressed, thin, and elegant, they were glam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
