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Musicologist Todd Decker's MUSIC MAKES ME: Why Fred Astaire was a King of Jazz
Host Diana Korte speaks with Musicologist and Washington University Professor of Music Todd Decker, who specializes in commercial US popular music, about the first of his five books, “Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz.” Is stunning dancer and singer Fred Astaire also one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? He is best known for his unforgettable dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer—particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. In…
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