Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing - Mark Knowles - Google Books

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Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word “Tap” was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that…