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Authors: Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black da
Dancing Wisdom
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Yvonne Daniel
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
Dancing Many Drums
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Thomas F. Defrantz
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-01 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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 influen
Mojo Workin'
Language: en
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Authors: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
Categories: Social Science
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A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk beli