Performing Arts

Biography

Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, songwriter,
anthropologist, author, educator and activist. 1956 
(Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons)

 

– – – Websites – – –

Archives of Early Lindy Hop

Free to Dance: Biographies

– – – Quick References on Various Individuals – – –

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. 2011. Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina:
A Biohistory of American Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

– – – Individuals – – –

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

The Official Website of Josephine Baker

Lewin, Yaël. 2011. Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

Aschenbrenner, Joyce. 2002. Katherine Dunham: Dancing A Life. Urbana [u.a.]: Univ. of Illinois Press.

Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts & Humanities  

O’Connor, Barbara. 1999. Katherine Dunham: Pioneer of Black Dance. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books.

Schwartz, Peggy, and Murray Schwartz. 2011. The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography Of Pearl Primus. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press.

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