Freedom's Dance

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

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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

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

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A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

Dancing in the Streets

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

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"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"--

We Have a Religion

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

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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

Dancing to Freedom

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

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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.

Freedom

Freedom
Title Freedom PDF eBook
Author Jaycee Dugard
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 272
Release 2017-07-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1501147633

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"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.

Martha Graham's Cold War

Martha Graham's Cold War
Title Martha Graham's Cold War PDF eBook
Author Victoria Phillips
Publisher
Pages 497
Release 2020
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0190610360

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""I am not a propagandist," declared the matriarch of American modern dance Martha Graham while on her State Department funded-tour in 1955. Graham's claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to over twenty-seven countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Near and Far East, and Russia representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H.W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field, she was titled "The Picasso of modern dance," and "Forever Modern" in later years, Graham proclaimed, "I am not a modernist." During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of "the heart and soul of mankind," suited political needs abroad. In addition, she declared, "I am not a feminist," yet she intersected with politically powerful women from Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower's Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford, and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters on the frontier and biblical characters to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham explained, "I am not a missionary." Her work promoted the United States as modern, culturally sophisticated, racially and culturally integrated. To her abstract and mythic works, she added the trope of the American frontier. With her tours and Cold War modernism, Graham demonstrates the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and, ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance"--