Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (Studies in Dance History) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 12: Studies in Dance History

Defrantz, Thomas F.

 
9780299173142: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (Studies in Dance History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299173143 ISBN 13: 9780299173142
Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas F. DeFrantz is associate professor of music and theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey&;s Embodiment of African American Culture (Oxford U Press, 2004). In addition to scholarly articles, he has written on dance for the Village Voice and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a dancer and choreographer and for many years directed the dance history program at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City.

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Verlag
UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299173143
ISBN 13 
9780299173142
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Anzahl der Seiten
366
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