Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Katherine Flowers [sound recording]

Author

Flowers, Katherine.

Publication

1963.

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Details

Additional Authors

Horosko, Marian.

Description

1 sound cassette (28 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

Miss Flowers discusses her own background; American black dance forms and their influence on dance in America; the Bamboula which was transplanted from Africa to New Orleans; Ring-shout, a religious dance; and voodoo dancing in New Orleans. A recording of vocal music for a Ring-shout is played. Miss Flowers then discusses the Cakewalk. The finale from Gottschalk's Cakewalk, used by Ruthanna Boris for her ballet Cakewalk, is played. Then follows a discussion of the African-American origins of jazz, jazz's influence on dance and on music, current distortions of jazz dancing.

Donor/Sponsor

• National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
• Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.

Uniform Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Flowers, K
• African American dance
• Cakewalk (Dance)
• Dance, Black > Louisiana > New Orleans
• Ring-shout
• Bamboula (Dance)
• Voodoo dancing
• Jazz dance
• Jazz
• Dance, Black > United States
• Cakewalk (Choreographic work : Boris)

Note

• Host: Marian Horosko. Recorded in 1963 and broadcast by radio station WNCN, New York, on its series, Profiles.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-25

OCLC

NYPY737051209-R

Author

Flowers, Katherine. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Katherine Flowers [sound recording]

Imprint

1963.

Local Note

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-25; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, dual track.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-25; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.

Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance,

Local Subject

Voodoo dancing.

Audiotapes -- Flowers, K.

Added Author

Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Added Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-25