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.
Table of Contents
Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies F. FOREWORD: Black Dance StudiesTakiyah Nur AminA. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSL. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS0. INTRODUCTION: Dancing the African Diaspora1. Thomas F. DeFrantz Lands of the Maroon Resistances 1. The Pleasures of Primitivism: Les Ballet Nègres and Queer West Indian Migrancy Amanda Reid2. Bals Nègres, Sites of Performance or Spectacle: From Kalenda to Biguine, Marronage or Commodification? Jacqueline Couti3. Dance Like DouenMakeda Thomas4. Yanvalou for Haiti: An Affective Ethnography of Ayikodans' Anmwey Ayiti Manman Mario LaMothe5. The Sacred Mapou: Landscape and Choreography at SouvnansAnn Mazzocca Bellecci6. 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 “Women of a Certain Age” and Urban Line DancesRaquel Monroe8. HBCU's Danceline: Not Your Mama's Majorette's LaQuinda Grimes9. Krump Time: Kinetic Affect, Resurrections, and Black Reorientations of Temporal FeelingsStephanie Leigh Batiste10. Disnegatif and the Cinematic Labors of Black DanceWill Rawls11. Making Men: Personhood and Selfcraft in ScreendanceTawanda Chabikwa12. Become Flesh/Enflesh Spirit: Significant Histories in Black Christian Liturgical DanceP. Kimberleigh Jordan13. Exquisitely Normal: Jermone Beacham and jumatatu m. poe's InterventionsJasmine JohnsonA Black Break Across Time and Space 14. Scriptive Things and Aesthetic Displacements in Sankofa Danzafro's La Mentira ComplacienteMelissa Blanco Borelli15. Katherine Dunham and the Building of DiasporaJoanna Dee Das16. Katherine Dunham and Mercedes Baptista: Forging Black Concert Dance DiasporaÁgatha Oliveira17. The Turning Point of Black Dances in Brazil: Creative Annunciations and Political InterrogationsLuciane Ramos-Silva18. Performing Peruvian Blackness: Perú Negro's Choreography Luis Paredes19. Baile Funk and Kuduro: Embodied Articulations of National Belonging in Brazil and AngolaKatya Wesolowski Black Sovereignty On Stage 20. Eleo Pomare and the Black Arts Movement John O. Perpener III21. Citing Ancestral Source: Abdel R. Salaam's Black Aesthetic Healing in Rhythm Legacy Charmian Wells22. World Making: African Mothers in Contemporary Dance Rainy Demerson23. Virtual Virtuosity: The Corporeal Orature of Camille A. Brown S. Ama Wray24. Delores Browne: Ballerina Dancing on the Edge Joselli Deans25. Liberty Covered in Lights: How the Great Black Way Became White Brynn Shiovitz26. Juanita Pitts: Race, Gender, and the Female HooferMargaret Morrison27. The Lady Dianne WalkerConstance Valis Hill28. On Semiotics and Spectatorship of the Black Male Dancing Body in the Choreography of Kyle AbrahamCarl Paris Re/membering Toward Together 29. Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (FESMAN) Esailama G. A. Diouf30. Imagining an Embodied Past: G?k?y? Power, Colonial Ideologies, and Iconic Dances, 1920s-1960sCécile Feza Bushidi31. Dancing Through Difference: West African Dance in Italy Claudia Brazzale32. Fanga, Dance of Welcome: The Journey from Africa to the United States of AmericaThea Nerissa Barnes33. Bantabas of Resistance and Acts of ReconsecrationAva LaVonne Vinesett34. Toward a Phenomenology of Epic MemoryC. Kemal Nance35. Standing on the Shoulders of Black Dance Educators Nyama McCarthy-BrownMaking Black 36. From DoDah to DoWop When the Gods No Longer Spoke: Reflections on the Legacy of the Ring Shout Katrina Hazzard-Donald37. Writing Dance in the AfroNowHalifu Osumare38. Kujichagulia to the Max: Tracing the Legacy of a Solo Dance JourneyAndrea E. Woods Valdés39. 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 Oliver41. Luxurious Performance and The Stakes of Black Excess Nadine George-Graves42. The Future Has Always Been Black Thomas F. DeFrantzIndex
