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Rooted Jazz Dance : Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century /

Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States, these essays challenge a century of misappropriation and lean in to difficult conversations of reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major roadblock to racial justice in the dance fiel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Oliver, Wendy (Editor ), Jones, Carlos R. A. (Editor ), Guarino, Lindsay (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2022.
Edición:1.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States, these essays challenge a century of misappropriation and lean in to difficult conversations of reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major roadblock to racial justice in the dance field by amplifying the people and culture responsible for the jazz language"--
"Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780813057972