People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories

Name: People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories
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ISBN: 9780816647767

ISBN-10: 0816647763

ISBN-13: 9780816647767

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jacqueline Shea Murphy

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During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. nbsp; Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Introduction: Dance as Document



Restrictions, Regulations, Resiliences



Have They a Right? Nineteenth-Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy



Theatricalizing Dancing and Policing Authenticity



Antidance Rhetoric and American Indian Arts in the 1920s



Twentieth-Century Modern Dance



Authentic Themes: Modern Dancers and American Indians in the 1920s and 1930s



Her Point of View: Martha Graham and Absent Indians



Held in Reserve: Jose Limon, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian Dance in the 1950s



Indigenous Choreographers Today



The Emergence of a Visible Native American Stage Dance



Aboriginal Land Claims and Aboriginal Dance at the End of the Twentieth Century



We're Dancing: Indigenous Stage Dance in the Twenty-first Century


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index