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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. The 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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Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts
June 30, 1998, Praeger Paperback
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Digging the Africanist presence in American performance: dance and other contexts
1996, Greenwood Press
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0313296847 9780313296840
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"In a modern dance film, "Dance: Four Pioneers," which is screened in college dance department classrooms across the nation, the narrator states that the contributions of Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya HoIm, and Martha Graham are felt in American dance from Broadway to the concert stage."
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