The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories / Jacqueline Shea Murphy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.Description: 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780816647750 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816647755 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816647767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0816647763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.80973 SHE
LOC classification:
  • GV1783 .S46 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
PART I. Restrictions, Regulations, Resiliences : 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 -- PART II. Twentieth-Century Modern Dance : 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 -- PART III. Indigenous Choreographers Today : 7. The emergence of a visible Native American stage dance ; 8. Aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance at the end of the twentieth century ; 9. We're dancing : indigenous stage dance in the twenty-first century.
Awards:
  • Winner of de La Torre Bueno Prize 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-308) and index.

PART I. Restrictions, Regulations, Resiliences : 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 -- PART II. Twentieth-Century Modern Dance : 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 -- PART III. Indigenous Choreographers Today : 7. The emergence of a visible Native American stage dance ; 8. Aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance at the end of the twentieth century ; 9. We're dancing : indigenous stage dance in the twenty-first century.

Winner of de La Torre Bueno Prize 2008

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