Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeFrantz, Thomas.

Series:

Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)

Studies in dance history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American dance--History.

African American dance.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

African American dance : a complex history

pt. 1. Theory

pt. 2. Practice

pt. 3. History.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612764110

9781282764118

128276411X

9780299173135

0299173135

OCLC:

868195331