Modern dance, Negro dance : race in motion / Susan Manning.

By:

Manning, Susan [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0816637369
9780816637362
0816637377
9780816637379

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

792.808996073 22

LOC classification:

GV1627.7.A34 M36 2004

Contents:

Introduction : American bodies in motion -- 1. Danced spirituals -- 2. Dancing left -- 3. In the shadow of war -- 4. Blood memories.

Review: "Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book to bring together these two vibrant strains of American dance in the modern era. Susan Manning traces the paths of modern dance and Negro dance from their beginnings in the Depression to their ultimate transformations in the postwar years, from Helen Tamiris's and Ted Shawn's suites of Negro Spirituals to concerts sponsored by the Workers Dance League, from Graham's American Document to the debuts of Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus, from Jose Limon's 1954 work The Traitor to Merce Cunningham's 1958 dances Summerspace and Antic Meet, to Ailey's 1960 masterpiece Revelations." "Through photographs and reviews, documentary film and oral history, Manning intricately and inextricably links the two historically divided traditions. The result is a unique view of American dance history across the divisions of black and white, radical and liberal, gay and straight, performer and spectator, and into the multiple, interdependent meanings of bodies in motion."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	792.808996073 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A431216B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-271) and index.

Introduction : American bodies in motion -- 1. Danced spirituals -- 2. Dancing left -- 3. In the shadow of war -- 4. Blood memories.

"Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book to bring together these two vibrant strains of American dance in the modern era. Susan Manning traces the paths of modern dance and Negro dance from their beginnings in the Depression to their ultimate transformations in the postwar years, from Helen Tamiris's and Ted Shawn's suites of Negro Spirituals to concerts sponsored by the Workers Dance League, from Graham's American Document to the debuts of Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus, from Jose Limon's 1954 work The Traitor to Merce Cunningham's 1958 dances Summerspace and Antic Meet, to Ailey's 1960 masterpiece Revelations." "Through photographs and reviews, documentary film and oral history, Manning intricately and inextricably links the two historically divided traditions. The result is a unique view of American dance history across the divisions of black and white, radical and liberal, gay and straight, performer and spectator, and into the multiple, interdependent meanings of bodies in motion."--BOOK JACKET.

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