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• Publisher : Jump At The Sun
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2003

This picture book honors the longstanding ring shout tradition from West Africa and the American South, depicting a thankful young boy learning to rejoice with all his heart. Full color.

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 January 2014

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage.

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• File Size : 49,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2013

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 39,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 May 2024

Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 May 2024

Stepping is a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, speaking, chanting, and drama. Elizabeth C. Fine's stunningly elaborate and vibrant portrayal

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2002

Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 07 November 1990

A nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches of black communities based on a ten year study.

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 46,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 May 1995

"... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches,

• Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2002

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

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 27 September 2016

The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theater, drama,