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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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Autres auteurs: Oliver, Wendy (Éditeur intellectuel), Jones, Carlos R. A. (Éditeur intellectuel), Guarino, Lindsay (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2022.
Édition:1.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780813057972