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Tap America: How A Nation Found Its Feet

  • Clarke Peters © BBC Music

Actor Clarke Peters embarks on a personal journey to discover the origins, development and contemporary significance of the art form he has loved since childhood – tap dancing. Clarke discovers that Hollywood greats such as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly were indebted to and inspired by the great Afro-American tap dancers who were routinely excluded from significant roles in the movies. It’s those performers who are by far the biggest influence on today’s generation of tap dancers.

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