This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.
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"Dr. Dixon Gottschild's voice is convincing because of her eclectic documentation and it is touching as well because of the human experiences the reader is drawn into within the related responses of her students, her colleagues, herself, and her antagonists. She is always clear about specific objectives, leaving tempting tangents, yet incorporating the thinking of scholars and learned others in multiple disciplines--definitely in a creole mode that is rich, colorful, and not easily discounted."- Yvonne Daniel, Associate Professor of Dance Anthropology Smith College and the Five College Dance Consortium
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In a modern dance film, "Dance: Four Pioneers," which is screened in college dance department classrooms across the nation, the narrator states that the contributions of Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya HoIm, and Martha Graham are felt in American dance from Broadway to the concert stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minstrel trope, black dancing body, primitive trope, minstrel format, white minstrelsy, ballet aesthetic, minstrel era, black minstrelsy, postmodern dance, minstrel stereotype, minstrel stage, contact improvisation, postmodern performance, buck dancing, radical juxtaposition, movement vocabulary, traditional ballet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, European American, United States, Josephine Baker, Native American, George Balanchine, Jim Crow, New World, Bert Williams, Snake Hips, Arthur Mitchell, George Walker, Hottentot Venus, Katherine Dunham, Master Juba, Temple University, The Four Temperaments, Elvis Presley, Van Vechten, Black Bottom, Black Patti, Martha Graham, New Orleans, Nicholas Brothers New!
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In a modern dance film, "Dance: Four Pioneers," which is screened in college dance department classrooms across the nation, the narrator states that the contributions of Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya HoIm, and Martha Graham are felt in American dance from Broadway to the concert stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minstrel trope, black dancing body, primitive trope, minstrel format, white minstrelsy, ballet aesthetic, minstrel era, black minstrelsy, postmodern dance, minstrel stereotype, minstrel stage, contact improvisation, postmodern performance, buck dancing, radical juxtaposition, movement vocabulary, traditional ballet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, European American, United States, Josephine Baker, Native American, George Balanchine, Jim Crow, New World, Bert Williams, Snake Hips, Arthur Mitchell, George Walker, Hottentot Venus, Katherine Dunham, Master Juba, Temple University, The Four Temperaments, Elvis Presley, Van Vechten, Black Bottom, Black Patti, Martha Graham, New Orleans, Nicholas Brothers New!
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- Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall Stearns in Front Matter, page 52, and Back Matter
- Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith on page 134, page 147, and Back Matter
- The End of Humanism (PAJ Books) by Professor Richard Schechner on page 39, and Back Matter
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison on page 6, and Back Matter
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal on page 26, and Back Matter
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- The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940 by Nadine George Graves in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance by Ann Cooper Albright in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry by Juliet McMains in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- I See America Dancing: Selected Readings, 1685-2000 by Maureen Needham on page 92, and Back Matter
- The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Alan Gregor Cobley in Front Matter
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