The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies features forty-two chapters of original scholarship that cultivate an awareness of dizzying abundance in Black dance practice. The chapters stretch through genres of analysis and intellectual methods. With unflappable confidence, each chapter tells of differential relations to an African diaspora in motion. The rising connectivities of Black Dance Studies offer moments to savor the source codes of activities that emerge in expressive gestures cast in relation to the ever-presentness of Black Life.
The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds beyond worlds of imagination, culture, desire, intellect, and practice.
Black Dance Studies, which brings together thinking and moving, is foundational to any manner of Black expression and political action. This handbook offers a broad look into it as a form of intellectual inquiry. The twinned dynamic of dance as a practice replete with reflection as well as elaboration offers a prismatic assessment of how Black Life emerges and moves, and how our lives expand in multiple directions through gesture. Encouraging well-being within the activity of embodied wondering, Black dance constructs counterbalances to everyday worlds of disavowal and disconnection; under-appreciation and material lack. Black Dance Studies takes on the task of narrating how dancing matters as a technology of feeling and participation in a political process of embodied Black Life.
The volume includes forty-two chapters of original scholarship that cultivate an awareness of dizzying abundance in Black dance practice. They stretch through many genres of analysis and intellectual methods. With unflappable confidence, each chapter tells of differential relations to an African diaspora in motion. There might be few areas of endeavor that Black Dance never touches. The rising connectivities of Black Dance Studies offer moments to savor the source codes of activities that emerge in expressive gestures cast in relation to the ever-presentness of Black Life.
Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies F. FOREWORD: Black Dance Studies
Takiyah Nur Amin A. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
L. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
0. INTRODUCTION: Dancing the African Diaspora
1. Thomas F. DeFrantz Lands of the Maroon Resistances
1. The Pleasures of
Primitivism: Les Ballet Nègres and Queer West Indian Migrancy Amanda Reid
2.
Bals Nègres, Sites of Performance or Spectacle: From Kalenda to Biguine,
Marronage or Commodification? Jacqueline Couti
3. Dance Like Douen
Makeda Thomas
4. Yanvalou for Haiti: An Affective Ethnography of Ayikodans'
Anmwey Ayiti Manman Mario LaMothe
5. The Sacred Mapou: Landscape and
Choreography at Souvnans
Ann Mazzocca Bellecci
6. Dancing Black Radical Presence: Intimate Geographies
and Proximal Memories in Contemporary Haitian Performance Dasha A. Chapman
Moving Towards a Sacred Social Self
7. The People Keep Dancing: Black <"Women
of a Certain Age> " and Urban Line Dances
Raquel Monroe
8. HBCU's Danceline: Not Your Mama's Majorette's LaQuinda
Grimes
9. Krump Time: Kinetic Affect, Resurrections, and Black Reorientations
of Temporal Feelings
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
10. Disnegatif and the Cinematic Labors of Black
Dance
Will Rawls
11. Making Men: Personhood and Selfcraft in Screendance
Tawanda Chabikwa
12. Become Flesh/Enflesh Spirit: Significant Histories in
Black Christian Liturgical Dance
P. Kimberleigh Jordan
13. Exquisitely Normal: Jermone Beacham and jumatatu m.
poe's Interventions
Jasmine Johnson A Black Break Across Time and Space
14. Scriptive Things and
Aesthetic Displacements in Sankofa Danzafro's La Mentira Complaciente
Melissa Blanco Borelli
15. Katherine Dunham and the Building of Diaspora
Joanna Dee Das
16. Katherine Dunham and Mercedes Baptista: Forging Black
Concert Dance Diaspora
Ágatha Oliveira
17. The Turning Point of Black Dances in Brazil: Creative
Annunciations and Political Interrogations
Luciane Ramos-Silva
18. Performing Peruvian Blackness: Perú Negro's
Choreography Luis Paredes
19. Baile Funk and Kuduro: Embodied Articulations
of National Belonging in Brazil and Angola
Katya Wesolowski Black Sovereignty On Stage
20. Eleo Pomare and the Black
Arts Movement John O. Perpener III
21. Citing Ancestral Source: Abdel R.
Salaam's Black Aesthetic Healing in Rhythm Legacy Charmian Wells
22. World
Making: African Mothers in Contemporary Dance Rainy Demerson
23. Virtual
Virtuosity: The Corporeal Orature of Camille A. Brown S. Ama Wray
24. Delores
Browne: Ballerina Dancing on the Edge Joselli Deans
25. Liberty Covered in
Lights: How the Great Black Way Became White Brynn Shiovitz
26. Juanita
Pitts: Race, Gender, and the Female Hoofer
Margaret Morrison
27. The Lady Dianne Walker
Constance Valis Hill
28. On Semiotics and Spectatorship of the Black Male
Dancing Body in the Choreography of Kyle Abraham
Carl Paris Re/membering Toward Together
29. Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
(FESMAN) Esailama G. A. Diouf
30. Imagining an Embodied Past: G?k?y? Power,
Colonial Ideologies, and Iconic Dances, 1920s-1960s
Cécile Feza Bushidi
31. Dancing Through Difference: West African Dance in
Italy Claudia Brazzale
32. Fanga, Dance of Welcome: The Journey from Africa
to the United States of America
Thea Nerissa Barnes
33. Bantabas of Resistance and Acts of Reconsecration
Ava LaVonne Vinesett
34. Toward a Phenomenology of Epic Memory
C. Kemal Nance
35. Standing on the Shoulders of Black Dance Educators Nyama
McCarthy-Brown Making Black
36. From DoDah to DoWop When the Gods No Longer
Spoke: Reflections on the Legacy of the Ring Shout Katrina Hazzard-Donald
37.
Writing Dance in the AfroNow
Halifu Osumare
38. Kujichagulia to the Max: Tracing the Legacy of a Solo
Dance Journey
Andrea E. Woods Valdés
39. Choreographers in the Commons Sipping Coffee: A
Radio Show Tanya Wideman-Davis/Thaddeus Davis/Dahlia Nayar
40. When and Where
We Enter: The Black Avant Garde Cynthia Oliver
41. Luxurious Performance and
The Stakes of Black Excess Nadine George-Graves
42. The Future Has Always
Been Black Thomas F. DeFrantz Index
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Professor at Northwestern University, directs SLIPPAGE: Performance
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