Dancing in blackness : a memoir /

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This book explores a black female dancer's personal journey over four decades across three continents and numerous countries, including different parts of the U.S. It is personal musings about the place of dance and race in Halifu Osumare's life across time and space that defined her life...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osumare, Halifu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Subjects:
Osumare, Halifu.
Osumare, Halifu
African American women dancers > Biography.
Dance > United States > Biography.
African American dance > History.
Danseuses noires américaines > Biographies.
Danse > États-Unis > Biographies.
Danses noires américaines > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
African American dance
African American women dancers
Dance
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Brenda Dixon Gottschild
  • Introduction: Dance and Blackness
  • Coming of age through (Black) dance in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Dancing in Europe
  • Dancing in New York
  • Dancing back into the S.F.-Oakland Bay Area, 1973-1976
  • Dancing in Africa
  • Dancing in Oakland and beyond, 1977-1993.

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