Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift; Rochelle S. Arkin; 1990.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Joan Hill Tap Notation Collection was processed, and a finding aid was created and coded for EAD format by Libby Smigel in October 2016.
Other Repositories
The major source for archival information on tap dancing is the Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
For other systems of tap notation, nine notation scores for tap dance were discovered among the papers of American bandleader Ted Lewis, housed at the Ted Lewis Museum in Circleville, Ohio.
Related Material
Additional material relating to tap dancing can be found in the following collections in the Library of Congress Music Division: International Tap Association Archive; Alan M. and Sali Ann Kriegsman Collection. The Music Division created a searchable online resource on tap dancing titled Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media , based on research provided by Constance Valis Hill.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Joan Hill Tap Notation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.