Steppin' on the blues : the visible rhythms of African American dance
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Steppin' on the blues : the visible rhythms of African American dance
（Folklore and society）
University of Illinois Press, c1996
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-251) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780252022111
Table of Contents
"Gimme de kneebone bent" : music and dance in Africa -- "Keep to the rhythm a you'll keep to life" : the style of African American vernacular dance -- Overture to vocal choreography : vernacular dance on "stage" (slavery 1950) "Let the punishment fit the crime" : the vocal choreography of Cholly Atkins The history of bands : from African rituals to New Orleans : second lines: t FAMU marching 100 : historical overview--colonial America to World War I -- FAMU marching 100 : from ballpark bleachers to national TV -- African Americ secret societies : remebering the past and facing the future fraternities an sororities : "a way of remembering" -- Stepping : regeneration through dance African American fraternities and sororities : regeneration through dance.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252065088
Description
It's impossible to think of the heritage of music and dance in the United States without the invaluable contributions of African Americans. Those art forms have been touched by the genius of African American culture and have helped this nation take its important and unique place in the
pantheon of world art.
Steppin' on the Blues explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Dance as it has emanated from the black community is a pervasive, vital, and distinctive form of expression--its movements speak eloquently of African American values and aesthetics. Beyond that it has been, finally, one of the most important means of cultural survival.
Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life. From the cakewalk to the development of jazz dance and jazz music, all Americans can take pride in the vitality, dynamism, drama, joy, and uncommon singularity with which African American dance has gifted the world.
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