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American allegory : Lindy hop and the racial imagination / Black Hawk Hancock.
Author
Hancock, Black Hawk, 1971-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
©2013
Description
xiii, 265 pages ; 23 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
E185.86 .H285 2013
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Illinois
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Chicago
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Dance and race
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Chicago (Ill.)
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Race relations
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History
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20th century
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Black people
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Race identity
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Illinois
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Chicago
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History
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20th century
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White people
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Race identity
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Illinois
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Chicago
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History
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20th century
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Lindy (Dance)
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Illinois
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Chicago
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
""Perhaps," wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power." As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than they appear, taking on great significance and an unexpected depth of meaning. What he saw in the power of the Lindy Hop--the dance that Life magazine once billed as "America's True National Folk Dance"--Would spread from black America to make a lasting impression on white America and offer us a truly compelling means of understanding our culture. But with what hidden implications? In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock offers an embedded and embodied ethnography that situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance worlds, the Lindy and Steppin', Hancock uses a combination of participant-observation and interviews to bring to the surface the racial tension that surrounds white use of black cultural forms. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, Hancock underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers wonderful insights into the intersection of race and culture in America"--the publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: this strange dance
Finding the pocket
Caught in the act of appropriation
Put a little color on that!
Steppin' out of whiteness
Conclusion: toward a new racial politics
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ISBN
9780226043074 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
022604307X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226043104 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
022604310X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
022604324X ((ebk.))
9780226043241 ((ebk.))
LCCN
2012044800
OCLC
809911078
Other standard number
40022471643
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