Freedom's Dance
Title | Freedom's Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Celestan |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-02-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0807168831 |
In this pivotal book, the captivating and kinetic images of noted photographer Eric Waters are paired with a collection of insightful essays by preeminent authors and cultural leaders to offer the first complete look at the Social, Aid and Pleasure Club (SAPC) parade culture in New Or-leans. Ranging from ideological approaches to the contributions of musicians, development of specific rituals by various clubs, and parade accessories such as elaborately decorated fans and sashes, Freedom’s Dance provides an unparalleled photographic and textual overview of the SAPC Second Line, tracking its origins in African traditions and subsequent development in black New Orleans culture. Karen Celestan’s vibrant narrative is supplemented with interviews of longtime culture-bearers such as Oliver “Squirk” Hunter, Lois Andrews (mother of Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and James Andrews), Fred Johnson, Gregory Davis, and Lionel Batiste, while interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars detail the rituals, historic perspective, and purpose of the Second Line. Freedom’s Dance defines this unique pub-lic-private phenomenon and captures every aspect of the Second Line, from SAPC members’ rollicking introductions at their annual parade to a funeral procession on its way to the crypt. Visually dazzling and critically important, Freedom’s Dance serves as both a celebration and a deep exploration of this understudied but immediately recognizable aspect of the African American tradition in the Big Easy.
I Want to Be Ready
Title | I Want to Be Ready PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Goldman |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2010-05-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0472050842 |
A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America
We Have a Religion
Title | We Have a Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Tisa Joy Wenger |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0807832626 |
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Title | Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi M. Jackson |
Publisher | Editoriale Jaca Book |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780810861497 |
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers--both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts--encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.
Dancing in the Streets
Title | Dancing in the Streets PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Cooper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | African American fraternal organizations |
ISBN | 9780917860829 |
"Explores the history, social ties, fashion, dance, and music of second lines, participatory parades put on by New Orleans's network of social aid and pleasure clubs. "Dancing in the Streets" brings together historical photographs with the work of ten contemporary second line photographers, profiles all clubs active today, and explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tradition"--
Dancing to Freedom
Title | Dancing to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Li Cunxin |
Publisher | Walker Childrens |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-07-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780802797773 |
In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America. From there his career took flight, and he danced in cities around the world—never forgetting his family, who urged him to follow his dreams.
Martha Graham's Cold War
Title | Martha Graham's Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Phillips |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190610360 |
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013, titled Strange commodity of cultural exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987.