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Digging the Africanist presence in American performance : dance and other contexts

Author: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
ISBN: 027596373X 9780275963736
OCLC Number: 39840883
Description: xvi, 189 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Up from under: The Africanist presence --
First premises of an Africanist aesthetic --
Don't take away my Picasso: Cultural borrowing and the Afro-Euro-American triangle --
Barefoot and hot, sneakered and cool: Africanist subtexts in modern and postmodern dance --
Stripping the emperor: George Balanchine and the Americanization of ballet --
Past imperfect: Performance, power, and politics on the minstrel stage --
Dance and theater in a multicultural context: Who stole the soul, who takes the "rap," or Free to be you and me?
Responsibility: Brenda Dixon Gottschild.

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