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  • Hot Feet and Social Change

    African Dance and Diaspora Communities

    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 challenges ... Leer más

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  • Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake

    A Social and Popular Dance Reader

    This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry. The essays cover different historical periods and styles; encompass regional influences from North and South America, Britain, Europe, and Africa; and emphasize a variety of methodological ... Leer más

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  • Dancing the Afrofuture

    Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy

    A Black dancer chronicles her career as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black cultureDancing the Afrofuture is the story of a dancer with a long career of artistry and activism who transitioned from performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar. Following the personal journey of her artistic development told in Dancing in Blackness, Halifu ... Leer más

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  • Sentient Performativities of Embodiment

    Thinking alongside the Human

    This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is ... Leer más

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  • Dancing in Blackness

    A Memoir

    American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to ... Leer más

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    Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

    "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century ... Leer más

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  • Black Futures

    “A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, ... Leer más

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  • Who We Be

    The Colorization of America

    de Jeff Chang ...
    Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope—another four-letter word—is still plunged into endless culture wars.How ... Leer más

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  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Eric Avila ...
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    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Leer más

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  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    de Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Leer más

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  • PRIDE

    Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of the New York Times

    A stunning fifty-year visual history of LGBTQ pride marches, parades, and protests, taken from the New York Times photo archives.It began in New York City on June 28, 1969.When police raided the Stonewall Inn—a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, known as a safe haven for gay men—violent demonstrations and protests broke out in response. The Stonewall Riots, as they would come to be known, ... Leer más

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