In the 1920s, many dancers adopted steps and movements from the Charleston, incorporating that dance into the tradition. These step dances have roots in earlier European, African, and Native American dance forms, and as a living tradition, they were not static. Some dancers were lively and percussive others were subtle and smooth. While dancers shared certain characteristic movements, the footwork was not standardized, and this allowed for a wide variety of personal steps and styles. These were not performances, but a form of social dance – a way to interact with other dancers and enjoy the music with one’s feet.
Readers will laugh, groan, cry, and cheer as the hard-to-love Carroll discovers an unlikely network of support and unconditional love that buffers her transformational journey into a late-life relationship with a most-unpredictable man an into life-affirming connections with people she has not seen for more than forty years.Preceding the development of contemporary clogging in the second half of the twentieth century, there was an earlier tradition of step dancing in western North Carolina, and individual buckdancers and flatfoot dancers were once a common sight at community dances or wherever music was being played. A tale of revelation, redemption, and reconciliation, Proud Flesh resonates with almost everyone who has faced the same issues as these women. Inwardly shielding her personal back-story, Carroll outwardly avoids acknowledgment of her own family baggage, allowing her to be blind-sided by the less sophisticated cousins. for California in 1988 she has no idea how her life is about to change through her reluctant friendship with her seatmates, Tennessee cousins Trixie and Peggy.
When tightly-wound secular-progressive sex therapist Carroll Murphy boards a plane from D.C. Proud Flesh is the story of four generations of women whose life messes define their relationships.
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