Modern Dance, Negro Dance

Modern Dance, Negro Dance
Title Modern Dance, Negro Dance PDF eBook
Author Susan Manning
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 332
Release 2004
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780816637362

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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?

What Makes That Black?
Title What Makes That Black? PDF eBook
Author Luana
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 120
Release 2016
Genre Art
ISBN 1483454797

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We all can name some of the Africanist aesthetic-structures that fuel African American and American art ... Syncopation, Improvisation, Call and Response, Cool, Polyrhythm, or Innovation as an ambition- But there are many, many more. 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.

African-American Concert Dance

African-American Concert Dance
Title African-American Concert Dance PDF eBook
Author John O. Perpener
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 354
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780252026751

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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.

Dancing Many Drums

Dancing Many Drums
Title Dancing Many Drums PDF eBook
Author Thomas F. Defrantz
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 382
Release 2002-04-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0299173135

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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.

Steppin' on the Blues

Steppin' on the Blues
Title Steppin' on the Blues PDF eBook
Author Jacqui Malone
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 316
Release 1996
Genre History
ISBN 9780252065088

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Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.

The Black Tradition in American Dance

The Black Tradition in American Dance
Title The Black Tradition in American Dance PDF eBook
Author Richard A. Long
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 1989
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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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.

Futures of Dance Studies

Futures of Dance Studies
Title Futures of Dance Studies PDF eBook
Author Susan Manning
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Pages 589
Release 2020-01-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0299322408

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A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts—onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street—and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. Engaging African American and African diasporic studies, Latinx and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Asian American and Asian studies, this anthology demonstrates the relevance of dance analysis to adjacent fields.