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Modern Moves
Danielle Robinson
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Description for Modern Moves
Paperback. Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between black and white cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It focuses on Manhattan, a Black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as the result of the co-mingling of dance ... Read more
Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as the result of the co-mingling of dance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199779222
SKU
V9780199779222
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Ref
99-34
About Danielle Robinson
Danielle Robinson is a dance scholar who researches the cross-cultural movement of Afro-diasporic popular dances within the Americas. She is an associate professor at York University's School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design and currently coordinates the MA program in Communication and Culture.
Reviews for Modern Moves
"Robinson's case studies create an engrossing, definitive portrait of how race, class, assimilation, and social mobility intersected as the nation propelled itself into the modern world."
Studies in Theatre and Performance
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