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Author : James Haskins
Publisher : T.Y. Crowell Junior Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.
Author : John O. Perpener
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252026751
Provides biographical and historical information on a group of African-American artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form.
Author : Barbara S. Glass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786471577
Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World, and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art of African dance. This generously illustrated history follows the dynamics of African dance forms throughout each generation. Early chapters discuss the African continent and the heritage of African American dance; the discrimination and marginalization of African Americans and the fortitude with which their dance forms survived; and black dance in the slavery era and later in the nineteenth century. Remaining chapters outline ten major characteristics that have consistently marked African American dance, and describe the various styles of black vernacular dance that became popular in America. The book concludes with a discussion of African dance at the end of the twentieth century and its important role in the flowering of African American arts. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Lynne Fauley Emery
Publisher : Princeton Book Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1989-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780916622633
The contribution of Black Americans to American culture has been widely recognized. Black dance - from its roots in Africa through Broadway, Hollywood, and the serious dance stage today - has been a rich ingredient in our cultural life. This book traces Black dance from the Caribean, through Southern Plantations, the North, Minstrelsy, Music Hall, to the concert dance of today. Memorable portraits are given of Bill Robinson, Alvin Ailey, Pearl Primus, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and many others. The new edition has been updated, and includes a chapter on Black dance during the last 15 years. (4e de couverture).
Author : Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 143990622X
The first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.
Author : Thomas F. Defrantz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299173135
Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates "black" and "African American " as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.
Author : B. Gottschild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137039000
What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.
Author : Barbara O'Connor
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575053530
A biography of Katherine Dunham, emphasizing her childhood, her love of anthropology and dance, and the creation of her unique dance style.
Author : Vikki Dale-Baltimore
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : African American dance
ISBN : 9781524965327
Author : Jacqui Malone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252065088
Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.