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Author: James Haskins
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780780709812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.
Author: John O. Perpener
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780252026751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides biographical and historical information on a group of African-American artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form.
Author: Lynne Fauley Emery
Publisher: Princeton Book Company
Published: 1989-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780916622633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contribution of Black Americans to American culture has been widely recognized. Black dance - from its roots in Africa through Broadway, Hollywood, and the serious dance stage today - has been a rich ingredient in our cultural life. This book traces Black dance from the Caribean, through Southern Plantations, the North, Minstrelsy, Music Hall, to the concert dance of today. Memorable portraits are given of Bill Robinson, Alvin Ailey, Pearl Primus, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and many others. The new edition has been updated, and includes a chapter on Black dance during the last 15 years. (4e de couverture).
Author: Thomas F. Defrantz
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0299173135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates "black" and "African American " as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.
Author: Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 143990622X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.
Author: Barbara S. Glass
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786471577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfricans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World, and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art of African dance. This generously illustrated history follows the dynamics of African dance forms throughout each generation. Early chapters discuss the African continent and the heritage of African American dance; the discrimination and marginalization of African Americans and the fortitude with which their dance forms survived; and black dance in the slavery era and later in the nineteenth century. Remaining chapters outline ten major characteristics that have consistently marked African American dance, and describe the various styles of black vernacular dance that became popular in America. The book concludes with a discussion of African dance at the end of the twentieth century and its important role in the flowering of African American arts. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Jacqui Malone
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780252065088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.
Author: Vikki Dale-Baltimore
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781524965327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. Gottschild
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1137039000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.
Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780816637362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
