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Embodying liberation : the Black body in American dance

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

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Additional Authors
  • Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-
  • Goeller, Alison D.
  • Janowska, Dorota.
  • DeFrantz, Thomas.
  • Perron, Wendy.
  • Borshuk, Michael.
  • Kraut, Anthea.
  • Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  • Adair, Christy.
  • Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
Description
149, [3] p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
FORECAAST ; v. 4
Subjects
Note
  • Includes brief biographies of contributors, p. 151-152.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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
*MGV 01-8232
ISBN
3825844730
OCLC
  • 47249326
  • NYPY01-B2642
Title
Embodying liberation : the Black body in American dance / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Alison D. Goeller (eds.)
Imprint
Hamburg : Lit ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, 2001.
Series
FORECAAST ; v. 4
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies, vol. 4.
Local Subject
Motion pictures. Mambo.
Added Author
Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-
Goeller, Alison D.
Janowska, Dorota.
DeFrantz, Thomas.
Perron, Wendy.
Borshuk, Michael.
Kraut, Anthea.
Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
Adair, Christy.
Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
Research Call Number
*MGV 01-8232
Sc E 02-1563
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