Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

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Book
Language
English
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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002.
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xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Mendel Music Library - Stacks GV1624.7.A34 D38 2002 Browse related items Request
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      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.
      Bibliographic references
      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.
      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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