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100 1 $aDeFrantz, Thomas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97856621
245 10 $aDancing revelations :$bAlvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture /$cThomas F. DeFrantz.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2004.
300 $axvii, 300 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.
520 1 $a"In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multiracial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the civil rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late twentieth century." "DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aAiley, Alvin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92006465
610 20 $aAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78005297
650 0 $aDancers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102027
650 0 $aChoreographers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100620
650 0 $aAfrican American dance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001943
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