Woodslane | Book - 9780252042959

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ISBN-13: 9780252042959
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Edited by Kariamu Welsh, Edited by Esailama Diouf, Edited by Yvonne Daniel, Foreword by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Preface by Danny Glover, Preface by Harry Belafonte, Preface by James Counts Early
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Local release date: 14/01/2020
Format: Hardback 328 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]

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Google Preview: The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays explode myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, and community respect. These voices of experience share personal accounts of living African traditions, their first encounters with and ultimate embrace of dance, and what teaching African-based dance have meant to them and their communities. Throughout, the editors alert readers to established and ongoing research, and provide links to critical contributions by African and Caribbean dance experts.; Many of the authors are themselves the sources of both dance traditions created within the last decades and of significant studies about them. This work is unprecedented and, thanks to its insider perspectives, only possible as the editors have constructed it.--Sheila S. Walker, editor of African Roots, American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas; Google Preview content