Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black danci

The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated a

On dance and culture

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

This work examines the African presence in various types of American dance forms. It argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been 'invisibilised' by racism, an