- Description
- xii, 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on how her career as a dancer and activist influenced her growth as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture"--
- "A Black dancer chronicles her career as ascholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black cultureDancing theAfrofutureis the story of a dancer with a long career of artistry and activism who transitionedfrom performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar.Following the personal journey of her artistic development told in Dancingin Blackness, Halifu Osumare now reflects on how that first career-which beganduring the 1960s Black Arts Movement-has influenced her growth as an academic, tracingher teaching and research against a political and cultural backdrop thatextends to the twenty-first century with Black Lives Matter and a potentspeculative Afrofuture. Osumaredescribes her decision to step away from full-time involvement in dance andcommunity activism to earn a doctorate in American studies from the University of Hawai'i. She emulated the model of hermentor Katherine Dunham by studying and performing hula, and her research onhip-hop youth culture took her from Hawai'ito Africa, Europe, and South America as a professor at the University ofCalifornia, Davis. Throughout her scholarly career, Osumare hasilluminated the resilience of African-descendant peoples through a focus on performanceand the lens of Afrofuturism. Respectedfor her work as both professional dancer and trailblazing academic, Osumareshares experiences from her second career that show the potential ofscholarship in revealing and documenting underrecognized stories of Black danceand global pop culture. In this memoir, Osumare dances across several fields ofstudy while ruminating on how the Black past reveals itself in the Afro-presentthat is transforming into the Afrofuture"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: From Dancing on the Stage to "Dancing" on the Page -- Dancing Out of the Bay Area -- Dancing in Hawai'i: Scholarship and Black Dance -- Dancing in Hawai'i: Performing Hula and A Hip-Hop Doctorate -- Dancing in Ohio and Nigeria -- "Dancing" in Sacramento and Davis -- Hip-Hoping Back to Ghana -- Becoming a Public Intellectual and Celebrating Blackness -- The Sankofa Process: Afrofuturism at Home and Abroad -- We Got Next! From The Afro-Present To The Afrofuture
- ISBN
- 9780813069876
- 0813069874
- 9780813080345
- 0813080347
- 9780813070643 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780813073026 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023017148
- OCLC
- YBP 2023017148
- Author
Osumare, Halifu, author.
- Title
Dancing the Afrofuture : hula, hip-hop, and the Dunham legacy / Halifu Osumare.
- Publisher
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2024.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Osumare, Halifu. Dancing the Afrofuture 1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2024 9780813070643 (DLC) 2023017149