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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002.
Description
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
GV1624.7.A34 D38 2002
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Subject(s)
African American dance
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History
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African Americans
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Social life and customs
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Series
Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
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Studies in dance history
Summary note
Presents a collection of 11 essays exploring the influence of African American music and movement in the American and world culture. Addressing issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, the volume includes discussion of Christian conversion and the challenge of dance; dance and identity politics in American Negro Vaudeville, the blues aesthetic, and other topics. Exceptionally good and plentiful b & w illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz
Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey
Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 / Nadine A. George
Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s / Marya Annette McQuirter
(Up)Staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro problem" in American dance / Richard C. Green
African dance in New York City / Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa
From "Messin' around" to "Funky Western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs / Sally Bances and John F. Szwed
"Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blues aesthetic / Veta Goler
Kykunkor, or the witch woman: an African opera in America, 1934 / Maureen Needham
Between two eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American entertainment world / Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression / Constance Valis Hill
The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain / Dawn Lille Horwitz.
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ISBN
0299173100 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780299173104 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0299173143 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780299173142 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2001001943
OCLC
46642218
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