The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories / Jacqueline Shea Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shea Murphy, Jacqueline, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian dance--United States--History--20th century.

Indian dance.

Modern dance--United States--History--20th century.

Modern dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these concert performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Illustrating how Native dance enacts cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage.

Contents:

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 1920's

Authentic themes : modern dancers and American Indians in the 1920's and 1930's

Her point of view : Martha Graham and absent Indians

Held in reserve : Jose Limón, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian dance in the 1950's

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5380-1

OCLC:

476125682