Tito tap dances while Johnny and Penny do the mambo. 

+ Famous tap dancer, Honi Coles

+ The history of tap and minstrelsy

+ Shirley Temple (drink and person)

+ Why some dance is authorized at Kellerman's and some is not 

+ The history of Latin American dance in American movies

+ Is Dirty Dancing kinda gay?

Works used and mentioned:

How to Make a Shirley Temple

Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype

PBS: Blackface Minstrelsy 

Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert

NY Times: HONI COLES: RECALLING 50 YEARS OF TAP

Honi Coles does Bill Robinson, 1979

Honi Coles with Chuck Green and Will Gaines 1983

It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It edited by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig

Cuban Pete from The Mask 

Cuban Pete by Louis Armstrong

Blog post about Joseph Norman 

El Manisero performed by Machin

Stop-motion creepy (or charming??) monkey 

Time Magazine: Sugar-Bowl Migrants

Readings on West Side story 

Carina's NY Times article on West Side Story

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CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE - website 

ADDIE TSAI - website 

SONJA THOMAS - Colby College faculty page 

 

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Fashion commentary by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky

Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim