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Author: Richard A. Long
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history, motifs and fashions of Afro-American dance from the early minstrels, through the dance-dramas of Isadata Dafora, to the thriving dance companies of today.
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: Rodreguez King-Dorset
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 078649204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe survival of African cultural traditions in the New World has long been a subject of academic study and controversy, particularly traditions of dance, music, and song. Yet the dance culture of blacks in London, where a growing black community carried on the newly creolized dance traditions of their Caribbean ancestors, has been largely neglected. This study begins by examining the importance of dance in African culture and analyzing how African dance took root in the Caribbean, even as slaves learned and adapted European dance forms. It then looks at how these dance traditions were transplanted and transformed once again, this time in mid-eighteenth century London. Finally it analyzes how the London black community used the quadrille and other dances to establish a unified self-identity, to reinforce their group dynamic, and to critique the oppressive white society in which they found themselves.
Author: Luana
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1483454797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all can name some of the Africanist aesthetic-structures that fuel African American and American art ... Syncopation, Improvisation, Call and Response, Cool, Polyrhythm, or Innovation as an ambition- But there are many, many more. What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti.
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: Kariamu Welsh-Asante
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1604134771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activities, such as rites of passage and the harvest, and it is also an important form of recreation, religious expression, and storytelling. In African Dance, Second Edition, the varied cultures of Africa and their respective dances are explored, along with the effects that colonialism had on the art form.
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: Ntozake Shange
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 080709188X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame as a writer, poet, performer, dancer, and storyteller, she was an untrained student who found her footing in others’ classrooms. Dance We Do is a tribute to those who taught her and her passion for rhythm, movement, and dance. After 20 years of research, writing, and devotion, Ntozake Shange tells her history of Black dance through a series of portraits of the dancers who trained her, moved with her, and inspired her to share the power of the Black body with her audience. Shange celebrates and honors the contributions of the often unrecognized pioneers who continued the path Katherine Dunham paved through the twentieth century. Dance We Do features a stunning photo insert along with personal interviews with Mickey Davidson, Halifu Osumare, Camille Brown, and Dianne McIntyre. In what is now one of her final works, Ntozake Shange welcomes the reader into the world she loved best.
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: Katherine Dunham
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780299212742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the African American dancer, anthropologist and social activist. It includes articles, her essays on dance and anthropology and chapters from her volume of memoirs, 'Minefields'.
