Download e-book for kindle: The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool by B. Gottschild

By B. Gottschild

ISBN-10: 0312240473

ISBN-13: 9780312240479

ISBN-10: 1403971218

ISBN-13: 9781403971210

what's the essence of black dance in the United States? to respond to that query, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing physique, to teach the critical position black dance has in American tradition. From the toes to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and past to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to a couple of the best choreographers of our day together with Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, invoice T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to examine the evolution of black dance and it is significance to American tradition. this can be a groundbreaking piece of labor by means of one of many ultimate African-American dance critics of our day.

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