Research Catalog

Title

Hot feet and social change : African dance and diaspora communities / edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G. A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Welsh-Asante, Kariamu
• Diouf, Esailama G.A.
• Daniel, Yvonne, 1940-

Description

xii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"African dance has a long history in the United States: Asadata Dafora, a Sierra Leonean, had a successful run on Broadway with "Kykunkor" in 1934, and he was one of many artists who, in the 1920s to 1940s, concertized and stylized what we have come to know as African dance. Many African dance specialists remained in the States and taught dance, which began a renaissance in African Dance across the Americas in the 1960s, particularly in the U.S. As a result, the last fifty years have seen an explosion of African performances, choreography and courses in academic institutions and cities across North America, South America, and Europe. Still, there is little information available on African dance per se and some artists and teachers, while well intentioned, disseminate within performative information, myths and falsehoods that continue to characterize African dance as undisciplined, a historical, and with scant technical skills. This collection brings indelible stories of African dance as it exists within major cities across the United States, demonstrating the power and considerable influence it has in awakening identity, self-worth, and diverse community respect. It alerts readers to the revealing research that dance investigators have completed and are pursuing--for example, analyses of the aesthetic components within African dance movement, the relationships between the musical and movement elements of African performance practices, or the differences between African and Diaspora usage of improvisation. And it represents traditionalists, neo-traditionlists, artists, teachers and scholars as they tell their stories." --

Subjects

• Dance > Social aspects
• Dance > Africa > History
• Aesthetics, African
• Dance > Social aspects > Africa
• United States
• History
• Dance > United States > History
• Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-277) and index.

Contents

• Foreword: the Bantaba! initiation of purpose / Thomas F. DeFrantz --Preface: Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, and James Counts Early -- Introduction: when, where, and how we enter / Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G.A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel -- Part I. Hot feet and local histories -- SAUCE!: conjuring the African Dream in America through dance / Esailama G. A. Diouf -- Dance rooted in the movements of Bedford-Stuyvesant: two choreographers, one aesthetic tradition / Indira Etwaroo -- From warm up to dobale in Philadelphia: embodying "community" meaning in a West African dance class / Julie B. Johnson -- Part II. The elders' work and words -- Ago! Ame!: Baba Chuck speaks! / Charles "Chuck" Davis with C. Kemal Nance -- The "gospel" of memory: inscribed bodies in the African diaspora / Kariamu Welsh -- Kankouran West African Dance Company, Washington D.C. / William Serrano-Franklin -- Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, 1972-2018 and still thriving / Amaniyea Payne -- Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective: in the city and a prison of New Orleans / Ausettua Amor Amenkun -- "The fierce freedom of their souls": activism of African dance in the Oakland Bay area / Halifu Osumare -- The African choreographer's envisioning / Naomi Gedo Johnson Diouf -- Mentoring notes on African diaspora dance styles and continuity / Yvonne Daniel -- Part III. Perpetual motion in the aesthetics of Africa -- Embodying rhythm: improvisation as agency in African dance / Abby Carlozzo -- From village to international stage: Baamaaya and the politics of adaptation / Steven Cornelius and Habib Iddrisu -- Men walk in parallel!: dancing in Chuck Davis's "Paths" / C. Kemal Nance.
• Pt. I : Hot feet and local histories -- Pt. II : The elders' work and words -- Pt. III : Perpetual motion in the aesthetics of Africa.

Call Number

Sc E 20-670

ISBN

• 9780252084775
• 0252084772
• 9780252042959
• 0252042956
• 9780252051814 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019019862

OCLC

1096529695

Title

Hot feet and social change : African dance and diaspora communities / edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G. A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-277) and index.

Added Author

Welsh-Asante, Kariamu, editor.

Diouf, Esailama G.A., editor.

Daniel, Yvonne, 1940- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Welsh, Kariamu, 1940- Hot feet and social change Urbana : [2019] 9780252051814 (DLC) 2019980573

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-670

*MGS (African) 20-1603