The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Title | The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Eugene Myers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | African American dance |
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The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Title | The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | African American dance |
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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 |
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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.
What Makes That Black?
Title | What Makes That Black? PDF eBook |
Author | Luana |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Aesthetics, Black |
ISBN | 1483454797 |
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.
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 |
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.
Embodying Liberation
Title | Embodying Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothea Fischer-Hornung |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9783825844738 |
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.
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 |
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.