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Steppin' on the blues : the visible rhythms of African American dance
- Title
- Steppin' on the blues : the visible rhythms of African American dance / Jacqui Malone.
- Author
- Malone, Jacqui.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- African American dance > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Gimme de kneebone bent" : music and dance in Africa -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : meaning and style in African American vernacular dance -- Mocking and celebrating : freedom of expression in dance during slavery -- Black dance on the road : minstrelsy and traveling shows -- Dancing singers and singing dancers : Black vernacular dance on stage, 1890-1940 -- Jazz music in motion : dancers and big bands -- "Let the punishment fit the crime" : the vocal choreography of Cholly Atkins -- "W'en de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' down de street" : from African processions to New Orleans second lines -- The FAMU marching 100 : from ballpark bleachers to the Champs Elysées -- African American mutual aid societies : remembering the past and facing the future -- Stepping : regeneration through dance in African American fraternities and sororities.
- Call Number
- Sc E 96-351
- ISBN
- 0252022114
- 0252065085 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95004413
- OCLC
- 32666068
- Author
- Malone, Jacqui.
- Title
- Steppin' on the blues : the visible rhythms of African American dance / Jacqui Malone.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 96-351*MGS (U.S.) 97-7779