Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of the roots.

Image of Perfection: The Freestyle Dance of Matt Mattox

An analysis of the technique of Matt Mattox.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 29, 2018book, in print, essays, bob boross, jazz history, matt mattox, frank hatchett

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance

The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance.

Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches

Featuring discussions of such dancers and choreographers as Bob Fosse and Katherine Dunham, as well as analyses of how the form’s vocabulary differs from ballet, this complex and compelling history captures the very essence of jazz dance.

Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance: Roger Pryor Dodge: Collected Writings, 1929-1964

Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance, collected writings by Roger Pryor Dodge, published by Oxford University Press, is out of print.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 28, 2018book, out of print, essays, rodger pryor dodge, jazz history, social dance

Ballroom, Boogie Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader

The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene by Mark Cotgrove. 'Foreward' by Professor Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 28, 2018book, in print, essays, julie malnig, jazz history, social dance

Comments on Jazz Dance: 1996-2014

This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 28, 2018book, in print, essays, bob boross, jazz history, matt mattox, frank hatchett

From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History of the UK Jazz Dance Scene

The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene by Mark Cotgrove. 'Foreward' by Professor Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeJune 26, 2018book, in print, essays, interviews, UK jazz, mark cotgrove

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