Rainbow Round My Shoulder
Title | Rainbow Round My Shoulder PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Washington Odum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Rainbow 'round My Shoulder [clippings].
Title | Rainbow 'round My Shoulder [clippings]. PDF eBook |
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Release | 1959 |
Genre | Rainbow 'round my shoulder (Choreographic work : McKayle) |
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Rainbow round my shoulder
Title | Rainbow round my shoulder PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Washington Odum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Rainbow Round My Shoulder
Title | Rainbow Round My Shoulder PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Ho |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Chinese |
ISBN |
Transcending Boundaries
Title | Transcending Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Donald McKayle |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136745718 |
First Published in 2002. Transcending Boundaries is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wideranging career of choreographer. director, performer and professor of dance Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of an adoring nine-year-old and executed an impromptu version of his infectious stair tap-dance, and an electric encounter as a teenager sitting in a darkened theatre witnessing a performance by concert artist Pearl Primus, are key early experiences which bring about McKayle's life in dance, theatre, film, television, entertainment and education. He learned at the feet of the masters, trained and developed some of the profession's top practitioners, and worked in theatres and studios around the world -on Broadway, in Hollywood -creating a repertoire of acclaimed masterworks. He experienced failure, success, love, marriage and family. Readers will find his autobiography a revelation in an ongoing and still evolving story.
Rainbow 'round My Shoulder
Title | Rainbow 'round My Shoulder PDF eBook |
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Release | 1959 |
Genre | Dance |
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Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey
Title | Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Moss Sanders |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780820325491 |
Howard W. Odum (1884-1954), the pioneering social scientist and founder of the University of North Carolina's department of sociology, played a leading and well-documented role in the modernization of the South. This is the first book-length study of Odum's contributions to southern folklore, which had important but largely unappreciated consequences for his legacy of social justice. Lynn Moss Sanders shows how Odum, as a collector of African American blues and work songs, anticipated some important precepts of modern folklore. Notably, Odum perceived the benefits of a collaborative and nonhierarchical approach to folk studies. Influenced by a racially tolerant former student and by one of his black folk informants, Odum changed his previous paternal, segregationist attitudes about race. Comparing Odum's two song collections, The Negro and His Songs (1925) and Negro Workaday Songs (1926), Sanders links the growing influence of Odum's coauthor and former student, Guy Johnson, to a decrease in instances of racial condescension between the first and second book. The three "folk" novels in Odum's Black Ulysses trilogy (completed in 1931) also reveal a progressive refinement of Odum's racial views. The change, Sanders believes, came with Odum's growing ability to see John Wesley "Left-Wing" Gordon, the black, working-class model for the trilogy's hero, as a friend rather than simply as a representative of "the Negro." From his authorship of Social and Mental Traits of the Negro (1910), now a relic of scientific racism, to his final publication, Agenda for Integration, Odum exemplifies how the study of folklore changed the folklorist--a change felt by a whole generation of southern liberals whose work Odum encouraged and shaped.