Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook—an underground cultural institution created by the black w...

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Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance

Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums...

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Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971

This publication documents the work of pioneering ballet pedagogue Marion D. Cuyjet and presents a historical and descriptive study of her...

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Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Br...

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Swing Dancing

From its unlikely origins in the African slave trade, one of the saddest chapters of American history, swing dance emerged as a celebratio...

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious ...

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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” fo...

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African Dance (World of Dance)

The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies an...

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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its fo...

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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo and Mamadou Diouf

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Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar by Ethel Younghusband

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African Dance

A series focusing on the rich varieties of dance from countries and continents around the world including those of Asia, Africa, the Middl...

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Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed

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Trances, Dances and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives by Nada Elia

Da Elia Trances, Dances and Vociferations Agency and Resistance in Africana Womens Narratives Garland Refer... by MariDjata4

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Trances, Dances and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives by Nada Elia

Da Elia Trances, Dances and Vociferations Agency and Resistance in Africana Womens Narratives Garland Refer... by MariDjata4

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Women and New and Africana Religions by Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin and Oyeronke Olademo

Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, Oyeronke Olademo Women and New and Africana Religions Women and Rel... by MariDjata4

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Women and New and Africana Religions by Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin and Oyeronke Olademo

Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, Oyeronke Olademo Women and New and Africana Religions Women and Rel... by MariDjata4

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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop by Kyra D. Gaunt

Kyra Gaunt the Games Black Girls Play Learning the Ropes From Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop 2006 by MariDjata4

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Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites by J. Omosade Awolalu

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Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites by J. Omosade Awolalu

Yoruba Beliefs Sacrifical by jamiefoxer

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