Dancing Many Drums Excavations in African American Dance

Name: Dancing Many Drums Excavations in African American Dance
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ISBN: 9780299173142

ISBN-10: 0299173143

ISBN-13: 9780299173142

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas F. Defrantz

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


African American Dance: A Complex History




Theory



Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance




Dance and Identity Politics in American Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935




Awkward Moves: Dance Lessons from the 1940s




(Up) Staging the Primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro Problem" in American Dance




Practice



African Dance in New York City




From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs




"Moves on Top of Blues": Dianne McIntyre's Blues Aesthetic




History



Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman: An African Opera in America, 1934




Between Two Eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American Entertainment World




Katherine Dunham's Southland: Protest in the Face of Repression




The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain



Contributors


Index