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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance
- Title
- Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19
- Uniform Title
- Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
- Subject
- Nash, Joe, 1919-2005
- Primus, Pearl
- McIntyre, Dianne
- Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965
- Dunham, Katherine
- Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo
- Whitman Sisters (Dance group)
- Norton and Margot (Dance team)
- New York Negro Ballet Company
- Kykunkor (Choreographic work : Dafora)
- Southland (Choreographic work : Dunham)
- African American dance > History
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- African American dancers
- Jazz dance
- Vaudeville > United States
- Dance > Instruction and study
- Dance > Social aspects
- Racism and the arts
- Dance > New York (State) > New York
- African Americans > Music
- Blues
- Dance, Black
- Note
- Part 1: theory. Part 2: practice. Part 3: history.
- "This volume is a tribute to African American dance archivist Joe Nash"--p. vii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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
- *MGS (U.S.) 02-897
- ISBN
- 0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001001943
- OCLC
- 46642218
- NYPY02-B2794
- Title
- Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
- Imprint
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
- Series
- Studies in dance history ; New series, no. 19Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Includes brief biographies of contributors (p. 343-346) and Joe Nash (p. vii-ix).
- Local Subject
- Television. On being black.Ring-shout.Dance company tours.
- Added Author
- DeFrantz, Thomas.Stuckey, Sterling.George-Graves, Nadine.McQuirter, Marya.Green, Richard C., 1967-Heard, Marcia E.Mussa, Mansa K.Banes, Sally.Szwed, John F., 1936-Goler, Veta.Needham, Maureen.Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.Hill, Constance Valis.Horwitz, Dawn Lille.
- Research Call Number
- *MGS (U.S.) 02-897Sc D 04-1213