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Dancing revelations : Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture / Thomas F. DeFrantz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeFrantz, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ailey, Alvin.
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
- Dancers--United States--Biography.
- Dancers.
- Choreographers--United States--Biography.
- Choreographers.
- African American dance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 300 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Chronicles the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre's journey from small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African-American culture. This book charts the troupe's rise to national and international renown, and contextualizes its progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- ONE: Revelations 1962
- Why Revelations Worked
- BREAK: Black Modernism
- Situating Revelations in African American Cultural Life
- TWO: Early Dances
- Ailey's Childhood: Race Matters
- BREAK: Unquenchable Racial Desire
- Blues Suite
- Ailey's Early Dances
- Hermit Songs
- THREE: Early Company
- Early Years in New York
- Early Residencies
- Southeast Asia Tour
- BREAK: "Official" African American Culture
- Riedaiglia
- FOUR: Revelations II: 1969
- BREAK: Versioning
- Multiracial Concert Dance
- Revelations 1975
- FIVE: Touring, Touring, Touring
- Quintet
- Swelling Popularity
- BREAK: Jazz Dance
- Flowers
- The Popular Audience
- BREAK: No Exit from Racism
- SIX: Reflecting a Spectrum of Experience
- Masekela Language
- The Lark Ascending
- Hidden Rites
- SEVEN: Other Dances
- Feast of Ashes
- BREAK: Black Dancer, White Dance
- The River
- EIGHT: Ailey Celebrates Ellington
- The Ellington Connection
- BREAK: Heroes
- Ailey Celebrates Ellington
- Pas de "Duke"
- Ellingtonia
- NINE: Gender and Spectatorship
- Cry
- Love Songs
- Masked Spectatorship: Ailey's Representation of Sexuality
- BREAK: Sex
- Streams
- BREAK: Black Atlantic Dance
- TEN: Later Dances
- Memoria
- Au Bord du Precipice
- Survivors
- BREAK: Alvin Ailey, Public and Private
- ELEVEN: Concluding Moves
- The Ailey after Ailey
- Revelations 2003
- APPENDIX: Choreography by Alvin Ailey
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780195348354
- 0195348354
- 9781602569522
- 1602569525
- 9780195154191
- 0195154193
- 9781280502125
- 1280502126
- OCLC:
- 437175150
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb05770 hdl
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