Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds beyond worlds of imagination, culture, desire, intellect, and practice.
Black Dance Studies, which brings together thinking and moving, is foundational to any manner of Black expression and political action. This handbook offers a broad look into it as a form of intellectual inquiry. The twinned dynamic of dance as a practice replete with reflection as well as elaboration offers a prismatic assessment of how Black Life emerges and moves, and how our lives expand in multiple directions through gesture. Encouraging well-being within the activity of embodied wondering, Black dance constructs counterbalances to everyday worlds of disavowal and disconnection; under-appreciation and material lack. Black Dance Studies takes on the task of narrating how dancing matters as a technology of feeling and participation in a political process of embodied Black Life.
The volume includes forty-two chapters of original scholarship that cultivate an awareness of dizzying abundance in Black dance practice. They stretch through many genres of analysis and intellectual methods. With unflappable confidence, each chapter tells of differential relations to an African diaspora in motion. There might be few areas of endeavor that Black Dance never touches. The rising connectivities of Black Dance Studies offer moments to savor the source codes of activities that emerge in expressive gestures cast in relation to the ever-presentness of Black Life.
Contents
Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies F. FOREWORD: Black Dance Studies
Takiyah Nur Amin A. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
L. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 0. INTRODUCTION: Dancing the African Diaspora
1. Thomas F. DeFrantz Lands of the Maroon Resistances 1. The Pleasures of Primitivism: Les Ballet Nègres and Queer West Indian Migrancy Amanda Reid 2. Bals Nègres, Sites of Performance or Spectacle: From Kalenda to Biguine, Marronage or Commodification? Jacqueline Couti 3. Dance Like Douen
Makeda Thomas 4. Yanvalou for Haiti: An Affective Ethnography of Ayikodans' Anmwey Ayiti Manman Mario LaMothe 5. The Sacred Mapou: Landscape and Choreography at Souvnans
Ann Mazzocca Bellecci 6. Dancing Black Radical Presence: Intimate Geographies and Proximal Memories in Contemporary Haitian Performance Dasha A. Chapman Moving Towards a Sacred Social Self 7. The People Keep Dancing: Black " and Urban Line Dances
Raquel Monroe 8. HBCU's Danceline: Not Your Mama's Majorette's LaQuinda Grimes 9. Krump Time: Kinetic Affect, Resurrections, and Black Reorientations of Temporal Feelings
Stephanie Leigh Batiste 10. Disnegatif and the Cinematic Labors of Black Dance
Will Rawls 11. Making Men: Personhood and Selfcraft in Screendance
Tawanda Chabikwa 12. Become Flesh/Enflesh Spirit: Significant Histories in Black Christian Liturgical Dance
P. Kimberleigh Jordan 13. Exquisitely Normal: Jermone Beacham and jumatatu m. poe's Interventions
Jasmine Johnson A Black Break Across Time and Space 14. Scriptive Things and Aesthetic Displacements in Sankofa Danzafro's La Mentira Complaciente
Melissa Blanco Borelli 15. Katherine Dunham and the Building of Diaspora
Joanna Dee Das 16. Katherine Dunham and Mercedes Baptista: Forging Black Concert Dance Diaspora
Ágatha Oliveira 17. The Turning Point of Black Dances in Brazil: Creative Annunciations and Political Interrogations
Luciane Ramos-Silva 18. Performing Peruvian Blackness: Perú Negro's Choreography Luis Paredes 19. Baile Funk and Kuduro: Embodied Articulations of National Belonging in Brazil and Angola
Katya Wesolowski Black Sovereignty On Stage 20. Eleo Pomare and the Black Arts Movement John O. Perpener III 21. Citing Ancestral Source: Abdel R. Salaam's Black Aesthetic Healing in Rhythm Legacy Charmian Wells 22. World Making: African Mothers in Contemporary Dance Rainy Demerson 23. Virtual Virtuosity: The Corporeal Orature of Camille A. Brown S. Ama Wray 24. Delores Browne: Ballerina Dancing on the Edge Joselli Deans 25. Liberty Covered in Lights: How the Great Black Way Became White Brynn Shiovitz 26. Juanita Pitts: Race, Gender, and the Female Hoofer
Margaret Morrison 27. The Lady Dianne Walker
Constance Valis Hill 28. On Semiotics and Spectatorship of the Black Male Dancing Body in the Choreography of Kyle Abraham
Carl Paris Re/membering Toward Together 29. Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (FESMAN) Esailama G. A. Diouf 30. Imagining an Embodied Past: G?k?y? Power, Colonial Ideologies, and Iconic Dances, 1920s-1960s
Cécile Feza Bushidi 31. Dancing Through Difference: West African Dance in Italy Claudia Brazzale 32. Fanga, Dance of Welcome: The Journey from Africa to the United States of America
Thea Nerissa Barnes 33. Bantabas of Resistance and Acts of Reconsecration
Ava LaVonne Vinesett 34. Toward a Phenomenology of Epic Memory
C. Kemal Nance 35. Standing on the Shoulders of Black Dance Educators Nyama McCarthy-Brown Making Black 36. From DoDah to DoWop When the Gods No Longer Spoke: Reflections on the Legacy of the Ring Shout Katrina Hazzard-Donald 37. Writing Dance in the AfroNow
Halifu Osumare 38. Kujichagulia to the Max: Tracing the Legacy of a Solo Dance Journey
Andrea E. Woods Valdés 39. Choreographers in the Commons Sipping Coffee: A Radio Show Tanya Wideman-Davis/Thaddeus Davis/Dahlia Nayar 40. When and Where We Enter: The Black Avant Garde Cynthia Oliver 41. Luxurious Performance and The Stakes of Black Excess Nadine George-Graves 42. The Future Has Always Been Black Thomas F. DeFrantz Index
