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Embodying liberation : the Black body in American dance

Title
  1. Embodying liberation : the Black body in American dance / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Alison D. Goeller (eds.)
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  1. Hamburg : Lit ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-
  2. Goeller, Alison D.
  3. Janowska, Dorota.
  4. DeFrantz, Thomas.
  5. Perron, Wendy.
  6. Borshuk, Michael.
  7. Kraut, Anthea.
  8. Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  9. Adair, Christy.
  10. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
Description
  1. 149, [3] p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. FORECAAST ; v. 4
Subject
  1. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
  2. Dunham, Katherine
  3. Ailey, Alvin
  4. Rites de passage (Choreographic work : Dunham)
  5. Dance > United States
  6. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
  7. Phoenix Dance Company
  8. Modern dance > United States
  9. Dance in literature
  10. African American dance
  11. Julien, Isaac
  12. Dance, Black
  13. Motion pictures > Mambo
  14. Hurston, Zora Neale
Contents
  1. Forward / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Introduction / Alison D. Goeller, Dorthea Fischer-Hornung, Dorota Janowska -- Dance in the Harlem Renaissance: sowing seeds / Wendy Perron -- An intelligence of the body: disruptive parody through dance in the early performances of Josephine Baker / Michael Borshuk -- Re-scripting origins: Zora Neale Hurston's staging of Black vernacular dance / Anthea Kraut -- Katherine Dunham's Rites de passage: censorship and sexuality / Ramsay Burt -- The body possessed: Katherine Dunham dance technique in Mambo / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- (Re)Crossing borders: the legacy of Alvin Ailey / Alison D. Goeller -- Phoenix perspectives: African American influences on a British dance company / Christy Adair -- An interview with Isaac Julien / Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt --Afterword / Brenda Dixon Gottschild.
Call number
  1. *MGV 01-8232
Note
  1. Includes brief biographies of contributors, p. 151-152.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Title
  1. Embodying liberation : the Black body in American dance / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Alison D. Goeller (eds.)
Imprint
  1. Hamburg : Lit ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, 2001.
Series
  1. FORECAAST ; v. 4
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Local note
  1. Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies, vol. 4.
Local subject
  1. Motion pictures. Mambo.
Added author
  1. Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-
  2. Goeller, Alison D.
  3. Janowska, Dorota.
  4. DeFrantz, Thomas.
  5. Perron, Wendy.
  6. Borshuk, Michael.
  7. Kraut, Anthea.
  8. Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  9. Adair, Christy.
  10. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
ISBN
  1. 3825844730
Research call number
  1. *MGV 01-8232
  2. Sc E 02-1563
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