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Title:

Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance / edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xiii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American dance--History.
African Americans--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

DeFrantz, Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 / Nadine A. George -- Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s / Marya Annette McQuirter -- (Up)Staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro problem" in American dance / Richard C. Green -- African dance in New York City / Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa -- From "Messin' around" to "Funky Western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs / Sally Bances and John F. Szwed -- "Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blues aesthetic / Veta Goler -- Kykunkor, or the witch woman: an African opera in America, 1934 / Maureen Needham -- Between two eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American entertainment world / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression / Constance Valis Hill -- The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain / Dawn Lille Horwitz.

Series:

Studies in dance history

ISBN:

9780299173142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299173104 (cloth : alk. paper)
0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46642218

LCCN:

2001001943

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)