Songs Rhythms & Chants for the Dance

Ella Jenkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Smithsonian Folkways
• ASIN: B00004YLGV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #796,420 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Ella Jenkins is joined by other vocalists and musicians to sing and play spirituals, chants, blues, folk songs, and instrumentals. Their cadenced rhythms and measured vocals inspire free-form movement, dance, and sing-alongs. The second part of the recording features excerpts from interviews in which dance professionals and students share their philosophies about dance as art, as therapy, and as a business. Discipline, hard work, and dedication are the main themes in these interviews. Studio recordings from 1977. 21 tracks plus interviews. 68 minutes.

AWARDS
2002 Early Childhood News Director's Choice Award

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to dance rhythms, February 28, 2001

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This review is from: Songs Rhythms & Chants for the Dance (Audio CD)

I guarantee your feet won't be still! For more than forty years Ella Jenkins has brought traditional music of all kinds to children and adults. This is a reissue of the historic 1977 recording celebrating all forms of dance - a tribute to Ella's own childhood fascination with music, rhythm and movement. It features 21 tracks of spirituals, chants, blues, and folk songs, plus 9 interview segments with members of Chicago's dance community, including a choreographer and Afro-Cuban dance specialist, a dance therapist and a dance student.