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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
- Description
- 149, [3] p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- FORECAAST ; v. 4
- Subjects
- Motion pictures > Mambo
- Dance, Black
- Julien, Isaac
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
- Modern dance > United States
- Ailey, Alvin
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Dunham, Katherine
- Dance in literature
- Rites de passage (Choreographic work : Dunham)
- Phoenix Dance Company
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
- African American dance
- Dance > United States
- 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 01-8232Sc E 02-1563