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The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
The Black Tradition in American Dance
Author: Richard A. Long
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history, motifs and fashions of Afro-American dance from the early minstrels, through the dance-dramas of Isadata Dafora, to the thriving dance companies of today.
Modern Dance, Negro Dance
Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780816637362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
What Makes That Black?
Author: Luana
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1483454797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti--Backcover.
Embodying Liberation
Author: Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9783825844738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays concerning the black body in American dance, EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important contribution to the growing field of scholarship in African American dance, in particular the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized stagings of the black body. The collection features special essays by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as well as an interview with Isaac Julien.
African-American Concert Dance
Author: John O. Perpener
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780252026751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides biographical and historical information on a group of African-American artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form.
Black Dance
Author: Edward Thorpe
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a study of Black dance from its origins in Africa, in the slave songs and dances of the Caribbean and the American South through the minstrel shows and burlesque theatres of the 1980s and 90s.
Dance
Author: Angela Shelf Medearis
Publisher: Twenty First Century Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780805044812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the dance traditions of African Americans, from their origins in the expressive dances that the slaves brought from Africa through the development of jazz and tap to modern dance and ballet.
Dancing Revelations
Author: Thomas F. DeFrantz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0195301714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--Jacket.
