Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina A Biohistory of American Performance

Name: Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina A Biohistory of American Performance
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ISBN: 9780230114098

ISBN-10: 0230114091

ISBN-13: 9780230114098

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

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Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown’s personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African Americans in the artistic and social developments of the twentieth century and into the new millennium. Dixon Gottschild uses Brown’s career as the fulcrum to leverage an exploration of the connection between performance, society, and race, beginning with Brown’s predecessors in the 1920s and a concert dance tradition that had no previous voice to tell its story from the inside out. Brown’s background and richly contoured biography are object lessons in survival—a true American…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English