| Description |
xiii, 366 pages : portraits, facsimiles, photographs |
| Series |
Studies in dance history |
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Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
African American Dance: A Complex History / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Part 1. Theory --1. Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- 2. Dance and Identity Politics in American Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 / Nadine A. George -- 3. Awkward Moves: Dance Lessons from the 1940s / Marya Annette McQuirter -- 4. (Up)Staging the Primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro Problem" in American Dance / Richard C. Green -- Part 2. Practice -- 5. African Dance in New York City / Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa -- 6. From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs / Sally Banes and John F. Szwed -- 7. "Moves on Top of Blues": Dianne McIntyre's Blues Aesthetic / Veta Goler -- Part 3. History -- 8. Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman: An African Opera in America, 1934 / Maureen Needham -- 9. Between Two Eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American Entertainment World / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- 10. Katherine Dunham's Southland: Protest in the Face of Repression / Constance Valis Hill -- 11. The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain / Dawn Lille Horwitz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
African American dance -- History.
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African Americans -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
DeFrantz, Thomas, editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2001001943 |
| ISBN |
9780299173142 |
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9780299173104 |
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