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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2022.
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| Édition: | 1. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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"-- |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813057972 |


