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The Black Dancing Body

2016-04-30 Social Science
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Release : 2016-04-30
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Book Synopsis The Black Dancing Body by : B. Gottschild

Download or read book The Black Dancing Body written by B. Gottschild. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.

The Black Dancing Body

2003 African American dance
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Release : 2003
Genre : African American dance
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Book Synopsis The Black Dancing Body by : Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Download or read book The Black Dancing Body written by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body."

Meaning in Motion

1997 Performing Arts
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Release : 1997
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Meaning in Motion by : Jane Desmond

Download or read book Meaning in Motion written by Jane Desmond. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On dance and culture

Dancing Many Drums

2002-04-01 Performing Arts
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Release : 2002-04-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Dancing Many Drums by : Thomas F. Defrantz

Download or read book Dancing Many Drums written by Thomas F. Defrantz. This book was released on 2002-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance

1996-05-28 Performing Arts
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Release : 1996-05-28
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance by : Brenda D. Gottschild

Download or read book Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance written by Brenda D. Gottschild. This book was released on 1996-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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