The people have never stopped dancing :

Shea Murphy, Jacqueline, 1964-

The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories / Jacqueline Shea Murphy. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007. - 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-308) and index.

PART I. Restrictions, Regulations, Resiliences : PART II. Twentieth-Century Modern Dance : PART III. Indigenous Choreographers Today : 9. We're dancing : indigenous stage dance in the twenty-first century. 1. Have they a right? : nineteenth-century Indian dance practices and federal policy ; 2. Theatricalizing dancing and policing authenticity ; 3. Antidance rhetoric and American Indian arts in the 1920s -- 4. Authentic themes : modern dancers and American Indians in the 1920s and 1930s ; 5. Her point of view : Martha Graham and absent Indians ; 6. Held in reserve : José Limón, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian dance in the 1950s -- 7. The emergence of a visible Native American stage dance ; 8. Aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance at the end of the twentieth century ;

Winner of de La Torre Bueno Prize 2008

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Modern dance--History--United States--20th century.
Indian dance--History--United States--20th century.

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