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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance

Title
Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Publication
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • DeFrantz, Thomas.
  • Stuckey, Sterling.
  • George-Graves, Nadine.
  • McQuirter, Marya.
  • Green, Richard C., 1967-
  • Heard, Marcia E.
  • Mussa, Mansa K.
  • Banes, Sally.
  • Szwed, John F., 1936-
  • Goler, Veta.
  • Needham, Maureen.
  • Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
  • Hill, Constance Valis.
  • Horwitz, Dawn Lille.
Description
xiii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19
Uniform Title
Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Subjects
Note
  • Part 1: theory. Part 2: practice. Part 3: history.
  • "This volume is a tribute to African American dance archivist Joe Nash"--p. vii.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Booty control / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: the Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 / Nadine A. George -- Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s / Marya Annette McQuirter -- (Up)Staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro Problem" in American dance / Richard C. Green -- African dance in New York City / Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa -- From "Messin' around" to "Funky Western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs / Sally Banes and John F. Szwed -- "Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blues aesthetic / Veta Goler -- Kykunkor, or the witch woman: an African opera in America, 1934 / Maureen Needham -- Between two eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American entertainment world / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression / Constance Valis Hill -- The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain / Dawn Lille Horwitz.
Call Number
*MGS (U.S.) 02-897
ISBN
  • 0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001001943
OCLC
  • 46642218
  • 46642218
Title
Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Imprint
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
Series
Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19
Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
Includes brief biographies of contributors (p. 343-346) and Joe Nash (p. vii-ix).
Local Subject
Television. On being black.
Ring-shout.
Dance company tours.
Added Author
DeFrantz, Thomas.
Stuckey, Sterling.
George-Graves, Nadine.
McQuirter, Marya.
Green, Richard C., 1967-
Heard, Marcia E.
Mussa, Mansa K.
Banes, Sally.
Szwed, John F., 1936-
Goler, Veta.
Needham, Maureen.
Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
Hill, Constance Valis.
Horwitz, Dawn Lille.
Research Call Number
*MGS (U.S.) 02-897
Sc D 04-1213
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