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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance

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

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Additional authors
  1. DeFrantz, Thomas
  2. Stuckey, Sterling
  3. George-Graves, Nadine
  4. McQuirter, Marya
  5. Green, Richard C., 1967-
  6. Heard, Marcia E
  7. Mussa, Mansa K
  8. Banes, Sally
  9. Szwed, John F., 1936-
  10. Goler, Veta
  11. Needham, Maureen
  12. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon
  13. Hill, Constance Valis
  14. Horwitz, Dawn Lille
Description
  1. xiii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19
Uniform title
  1. Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Subject
  1. Nash, Joe, 1919-2005
  2. Primus, Pearl
  3. McIntyre, Dianne
  4. Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965
  5. Dunham, Katherine
  6. Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo
  7. Whitman Sisters (Dance group)
  8. Norton and Margot (Dance team)
  9. New York Negro Ballet Company
  10. Kykunkor (Choreographic work : Dafora)
  11. Southland (Choreographic work : Dunham)
  12. African American dance -- History
  13. African Americans -- Social life and customs
  14. African American dancers
  15. Jazz dance
  16. Vaudeville -- United States
  17. Dance -- Instruction and study
  18. Dance -- Social aspects
  19. Racism and the arts
  20. Dance -- New York (State) -- New York
  21. African Americans -- Music
  22. Blues
  23. Dance, Black
Contents
  1. 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
  1. *MGS (U.S.) 02-897
Note
  1. Part 1: theory. Part 2: practice. Part 3: history.
  2. "This volume is a tribute to African American dance archivist Joe Nash"--p. vii.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Imprint
  1. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
Series
  1. Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19
  2. Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local note
  1. Includes brief biographies of contributors (p. 343-346) and Joe Nash (p. vii-ix).
Local subject
  1. Television. On being black.
  2. Ring-shout.
  3. Dance company tours.
Added author
  1. DeFrantz, Thomas.
  2. Stuckey, Sterling.
  3. George-Graves, Nadine.
  4. McQuirter, Marya.
  5. Green, Richard C., 1967-
  6. Heard, Marcia E.
  7. Mussa, Mansa K.
  8. Banes, Sally.
  9. Szwed, John F., 1936-
  10. Goler, Veta.
  11. Needham, Maureen.
  12. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
  13. Hill, Constance Valis.
  14. Horwitz, Dawn Lille.
LCCN
  1. 2001001943
ISBN
  1. 0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. *MGS (U.S.) 02-897
  2. Sc D 04-1213
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