Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities
Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G.A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel
Abstract
The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays explode myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, and community respect. These voices of experience share personal accounts of living African traditions, their first en ... More
The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays explode myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, and community respect. These voices of experience share personal accounts of living African traditions, their first encounters with and ultimate embrace of dance, and what teaching African-based dance have meant to them and their communities. Throughout, the editors alert readers to established and ongoing research, and provide links to critical contributions by African and Caribbean dance experts.Contributors: Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius, Yvonne Daniel, Charles “Chuck” Davis, Esailama G. A. Diouf, Indira Etwaroo, Habib Iddrisu, Julie B. Johnson, C. Kemal Nance, Halifu Osumare, Amaniyea Payne, William Serrano-Franklin, and Kariamu Welsh
Keywords:
World African,
DiasporaAmerican African Diaspora,
African Dance definitions,
West African influences on U.S. urban centers,
West and Central African dance histories,
messages from African dance elders,
Caribbean and Afro-Latin dance styles,
gendered Black choreographies,
theoretical reviewing of improvisation,
village to stage transformations,
African dance politics,
aesthetic and collective meanings
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252042959 |
Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: September 2020 |
DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252042959.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kariamu Welsh, editor
Temple University
Esailama G.A. Diouf, editor
Bisemi Foundation Inc.
Yvonne Daniel, editor
Smith College
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