Thomas F. Defrantz

Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance

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Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates black and African American as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Ma… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-299-17314-2
EAN: 9780299173142
Produktnummer: 9122951
Verlag: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 366 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.2 cm 521 g
Reihenbandnummer: 19
Gewicht: 521

Über den Autor

Thomas F. DeFrantz is associate professor of music and theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to scholarly articles, he has written on dance for the Village Voice and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a dancer and choreographer and directs the dance history program at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.