Brenda Gottschild

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance

Dance and Other Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780313296840
• ISBN-10: 0313296847
• Artikelnr.: 21289566

Autorenporträt

Brenda D. Gottschild

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 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? Illustrations References Index