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Additional authors

1. Primus, Pearl
2. Murray, James Briggs
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Description

1. 5 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. The Oral History interview with Pearl Primus documents Pearl Primus' early years, dancing career, and anthropological pursuits. Primus tells of Trinidad, growing up in New York City, and her family. She discusses how she was first introduced to dance and about her performance in the 1939 World's Fair. Primus discusses Café Society and her friendships with notables like Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes. She talks about her choreography, how certain experiences and musical works inspired her, her views on dance as a means of social protest, and how her work is meant to chronicle the Black experience in the United States, blending African and Caribbean dance traditions. Primus also discusses her anthropological research and how she is continuously conscience of her ancestry. She recalls the specifics of her Rosenwald Fellowship to study in Africa and her anthropological research in the rural South where she lived and worked with sharecroppers and visited Black churches.

Subject

1. Primus, Pearl -- Interviews
2. African American anthropologists
3. Anthropology -- Africa
4. Anthropology -- United States
5. Choreographers -- United States
6. Dance -- Africa
7. Dance -- Anthropological aspects
8. Dance -- Folklore
9. Dance -- Religious aspects
10. Dance, Black -- Africa -- History
11. Women anthropologists

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Oral histories.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1554

Note

1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

1. Pearl Primus was an internationally recognized dancer and anthropologist. She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1910, and spent the majority of her life in New York City.

Title

1. Oral history interview with Pearl Primus.

Publisher

1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1993.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Event

1. Interview conducted August 18, 1993.

Terms of use

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

1. Pearl Primus was an internationally recognized dancer and anthropologist. She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1910, and spent the majority of her life in New York City.

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1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Primus, Pearl, interviewee.
2. Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1554
2. Sc Visual VRA-71 VHS
3. Sc Visual VRB-2001 U-matic