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by Thomas F. Defrantz

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Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates "black" and "African American " as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing.

Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.

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  • Title Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance
  • Author Thomas F. Defrantz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Madison
  • Publication date 2002-03-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780299173142 / 0299173143
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.06 x 0.84 in (23.27 x 15.39 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social life and customs, African American dance - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001001943
  • Dewey Decimal Code 793.308

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2002, Page 642
  • Multicultural Review, 06/01/2002, Page 71

About the author

Thomas F. DeFrantz is associate professor of music and theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture (Oxford U Press, 2004). In addition to scholarly articles, he has written on dance for the Village Voice and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a dancer and choreographer and for many years directed the dance history program at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City.

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