• Studies. Stearns was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Edith Baker Winslow (maiden; Edith Baker Winslow; 1878–1952) and Harry Ney Stearns (1874–1930)...
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    academic discussion of Lindy Hop, in part for their work with Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns (in their book Jazz Dance and documentary films). Lindy Hop...
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    Hollywood films, radio, and television. According to dance critic Marshall Stearns, "Robinson's contribution to tap dance is exact and specific. He brought...
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  • Martha Stearns Marshall (1726–1771) was a Separate Baptist preacher in the Southern United States. She spread the gospel alongside her husband, Daniel...
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    Hooker were invited to a ten-day symposium hosted by jazz historian Marshall Stearns who gathered participants to discuss how to define jazz. Jackson was...
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    Performers in America. Routledge. pp. 239. ISBN 0-415-93853-8. Marshall Stearns; Jean Stearns (1994). Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance....
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  • Fame Bios". American Tap Dance Foundation. Retrieved 2025-02-05. Stearns, Marshall; Stearns, Jean (1966). "American Vernacular Dance: The Whitman Sisters"...
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  • include: Asahel Stearns (1774–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts Betsey Ann Stearns (1830-1914), American inventor Bill Stearns (1853–1898), professional...
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    1984 Jazz Dance: the story of American vernacular dance, Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns (1994) Da Capo Press (originally published in 1968 by Macmillan)...
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    fi/search?updated-max=2017-06-13T07:28:00-07:00&max-results=7 . Stearns, Marshall; Stearns, Jean (1968). Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance...
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  • 1920s. The surviving sisters were interviewed in the 1960s by Jean and Marshall Stearns, who included a chapter about the Whitmans in their work Jazz Dance...
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  • 2016-10-03. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns, Da Capo Press, 1994 ISBN 0-306-80553-7. Garcia: An American...
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  • desire for respectability and equality on the American concert stage. Marshall Stearns, in the 1964 film-made-for-TV, Over the Top to Bebop, stated that the...
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  • and Over the Top with Bebop, which was narrated by jazz historian Marshall Stearns. In 1944, Coles married Marion Evelyn Edwards, a dancer in the Number...
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  • Rylanders.free-online.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2018. Marshall Winslow Stearns, Jean Stearns. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance, Da...
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  • Institute of Jazz Studies was founded by Marshall Stearns, a jazz scholar, literature professor, and author. Stearns had a plan for a jazz institute as early...
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    the Berkshires. There at the Music Inn, a venue where jazz historian Marshall Stearns taught, Weston first learned about the African roots of jazz. He would...
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  • Manhattan where he worked first as an NBC page. Later he joined with Marshall Stearns, founder of the Institute of Jazz Studies, and others in documenting...
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  • founded by Steve Smith. The advisory board included John Hammond, Marshall Stearns, Charles Edward Smith, Wilder Hobson, Bill Russell, Charles Delaunay...
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  • Conover, Lee Konitz, Cannonball Adderley, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Marshall Stearns and others. Researchvideo Archived 2009-08-04 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • Minns and James in part for their role in the research of Jean and Marshall Stearns's influential book Jazz Dance, Minns for his work with the Hot Shots...
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  • (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 622. ISBN 0-85112-939-0. Stearns, Marshall; Stearns, Jean (1994). Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance...
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  • band instructors; studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns, and George Russell; and was classmates with Ornette Coleman, and Don...
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    Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, where he continued the work of Marshall Stearns and made the Institute the world's largest repository of jazz documents...
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    Rhetoric. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5192-5. Stearns, Marshall; Stearns, Jean (1966). "American Vernacular Dance: The Whitman Sisters"...
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  • from a graveyard in Sumner, Georgia that Mosley saw pictures of in Marshall Stearns' book The Story of Jazz. Living in Pittsburgh, Mosley met many influential...
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  • p. 3 Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance, Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns (1994 ed.), p. 213; also pps. 151, 157, 192, 217, 218, 246...
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  • which tap dancer Charles "Honi" Coles and tap historians Jean and Marshall Stearns described as "like a man", were unconventional for her time. Madison...
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist...
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  • 1960s, Forsyne was interviewed by oral historians of dance, Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns. In 1951, Forsyne assisted Ruthanna Boris in the choreography...
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