Modern Jazz Dance by Delores Kirton Cayou published by Mayfield Publishing Company is out of print.
Read MoreScholarly writing on AfricanAmerican performers in vaudeville era by by one of the foremost African American dance critics of our day.
Read MoreWritten by Brenda Dixon Gottschild, one of the foremost American dance critics of our day, The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America.
Read MoreThis ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture.
Read MoreBringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland.
Read MoreThis book brings together all Thompson’s writings on the cool, some hitherto unpublished, many in out-of-print and hard-to-find publications.
Read MoreFormer dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance.
Read MoreFocusing on ten African-American dance arenas from the period of enslavement to the mid-twentieth century, this book explores the jooks, honky-tonks, rent parties, and after-hours joints as well as the licensed membership clubs, dance halls, cabarets, and the dances of the black elite.
Read More2018 was the first annual Houston Jazz Dance Festival. The festival celebrates the social dance traditions of African-Americans, Africans and people of color, including Lindy Hop, Solo Jazz, Hip Hop, House, Tap and African Dance.
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