Dancing Many Drums

Excavations in African American Dance

By: Thomas F. DeFrantz (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 March 2002

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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 Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.

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"Dancing Many Drums unearths many artists and performance companies whose work should be made available to the scholarly community and the general public. DeFrantz presents new scholarship by new writers who are well versed in the history of African American dancing, many through actual dance practice."--Anita Gonzalez, Florida State University

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
African American Dance: A Complex History	p. 3
Theory
Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance	p. 39
Dance and Identity Politics in American Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935	p. 59
Awkward Moves: Dance Lessons from the 1940s	p. 81
(Up) Staging the Primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro Problem" in American Dance	p. 105
Practice
African Dance in New York City	p. 143
From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs	p. 169
"Moves on Top of Blues": Dianne McIntyre's Blues Aesthetic	p. 205
History
Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman: An African Opera in America, 1934	p. 233
Between Two Eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American Entertainment World	p. 267
Katherine Dunham's Southland: Protest in the Face of Repression	p. 289
The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain	p. 317
Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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