Abstract:

This article is a study of the part played by musical revues in the provision of employment opportunities for African-American performers and the dissemination of African-American music into British popular culture. The role and artistic significance of dancers and musical-comedy artists has frequently been overlooked by conventional accounts concentrating on the contributions of recorded musicians. The study seeks also to give credit by name to the numerous female dancers who have joined the ranks of the artistic world's invisible women.

Author: Howard Rye