Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

Name: Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
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ISBN: 9780195301717

ISBN-10: 0195301714

ISBN-13: 9780195301717

Edition: 2006

Authors: Thomas F. DeFrantz

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In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African Americanculture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.DeFrantz examines…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 620
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.91" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Revelations 1962


Early Dances


Early Company


Revelations II 1969


Touring, Touring, Touring


Reflecting a Spectrum of Experience


Other Dances


Ailey Celebrates Ellington


Ailey's Construction of Gender and Spectatorship


Later Dances


Concluding Moves


Appendix: Choreography



Bibliography


Index