Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman : Black History and Poetics in Performance /

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"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Gale, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans > Music.
African Americans.
African American women dancers.
African American dance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Histoire.
Danseuses noires americaines.
Danses noires americaines > Histoire.
Esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Noires americaines > Musique > Histoire et critique.
African Americans > History.
African American dance > History.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Slaves > Southern States > Music > History and criticism.
African American women > Music > History and criticism.
Southern States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Way we do
  • Juba danced
  • The ancestors and the lullaby
  • Put your hands on your hips : rites of passage in performance
  • Rosy, Possum, Morning Star : work songs and the blues
  • Coda.

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