Performing Arts

African American Dance

Congo Square, New Orleans. Late 19th  century artist’s conception of African dances
several generations earlier. [Engraving by E. W. Kemble, to illustrate article “The Dance in
Place Congo” by George Washington Cable, published in Century Magazine, February, 1886.]
(Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons)

 

– – – Websites – – –

Free to Dance: Dance Timeline 1619 – 2001 – PBS

Free to Dance: Great Performances – PBS

Fabre, Geneviève. 1983. Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphor: Contemporary Afro-American Theatre. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Hatchett, Frank, and Nancy Myers Gitlin. 2000. Frank Hatchett’s Jazz Dance. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina. 1990. Jookin’ the Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Huntington, Carla Stalling. 2011. Black social dance in television advertising an analytical history. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.

 
– – – Break Dancing – – –

Dillman, Lisa. 2006. Tap Dancing. Chicago, Ill: Heinemann Library.

Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi. 2012. Hip Hop Dance. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood.

Smith, Jessie Carney. 2011. Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood. 
 

– – – Lindy Hop – – –

Archives of Early Lindy Hop

– – – Modern Dance – – –

Finkelman, Paul. 2009. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the
Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century Vol. 1 Vol. 1.Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press.

– – – Stepping – – –

Bean, Annemarie. 1999. A Sourcebook Of African-American Performance Plays, People, Movements. London: Routledge.

Brown, Tamara L., Gregory S. Parks, and Clarenda M. Phillips. 2012. African American Fraternities and
Sororities the Legacy and the Vision. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Fine, Elizabeth Calvert. 2003. Soulstepping: African American Step Shows. Urbana [u.a.]: University of Illinois Press.

Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth. 2010. Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics,
and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities. Albany: State University of New York Press.

 

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