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Author:

Jackson, Gale, 1958- author.

Title:

Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance / Gale P. Jackson.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African American women--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slaves--Southern States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American dance--History.
African American women dancers.
African Americans--History.
African American dance.
African American women dancers.
African Americans.
African Americans--Music.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The way we do : an introductory mapping -- Juba danced : following a story in motion -- The ancestors and the lullaby : passing it on -- Put your hands on your hips : rites of passage in performance -- Rosy, possum, morning star : work songs and the blues.

Summary:

"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performance. In engaging these vibrant traditions, "Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman" provides a window into multiple discourses and new paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, and theory embedded in Black traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1496217683
9781496217684

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1120784965

LCCN:

2019030006

Locations:

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