Dancing many drums :  excavations in African American dance / 
edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz. 
 - Madison, Wis. :  University of Wisconsin Press,  ©2002. 
 - xiii, 366 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Studies in dance history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> African American dance: a complex history /  Part 1. Theory :  1. Christian conversion and the challenge of dance /   2. Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935 /   3. Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s /  4. (Up)Staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and "the Negro problem" in American dance /   Part 2. Practice :  5. African dance in New York City /   6. From "Messin' around" to "Funky Western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs /   7. "Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blues aesthetic /   Part 3. History :  8. Kykunkor, or the witch woman: an African opera in America, 1934 /   9. Between two eras: "Norton and Margot" in the Afro-American entertainment world /   10. Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression /   11. The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain /   Thomas F. DeFrantz --  P. Sterling Stuckey --  Nadine A. George --  Marya Annette McQuirter --  Richard C. Green --  Marcia E. Heard and Mansa K. Mussa --  Sally Banes and John F. Szwed --  Veta Goler --  Maureen Needham --  Brenda Dixon Gottschild --  Constance Valis Hill --  Dawn Lille Horwitz. 
<br/><br/> Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. "Dancing Many Drums" explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory and practice. In so doing, it reevalautes "black" and "African American" as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history and dance, "Dancing Many Drums" ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, "Southland". In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on 1934 "African opera" "Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman". -- Book Cover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0299173100 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780299173104 (cloth : alk. paper) 0299173143 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780299173142 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001001943 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American dance--History.<br/>African Americans--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1624.7.A34  / .D38 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>793.308996073  / DEF