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BL
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582228
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b411447
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| Title & Author
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Dancing many drums : : excavations in African American dance /\ edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, c2002
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| Series Statement
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Studies in dance history
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| Page. NO
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xiii, 366 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 / Nadine A. George -- Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s / Marya Annette McQuirter -- (Up)Staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro problem" in American dance / Richard C. Green -- African dance in New York City / Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa -- From "Messin' around" to "Funky Western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs / Sally Bances and John F. Szwed -- "Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blues aesthetic / Veta Goler -- Kykunkor, or the witch woman: an African opera in America, 1934 / Maureen Needham -- Between two eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American entertainment world / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression / Constance Valis Hill -- The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain / Dawn Lille Horwitz
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| Subject
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African American dance-- History
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African Americans-- Social life and customs
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| Dewey Classification
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793.3/089/96073
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| LC Classification
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GV1624.7.A34D38 2002
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| Added Entry
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DeFrantz, Thomas
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