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.

Jazz Class with Frank Hatchett

Jazz Class with Frank Hatchett published by Statler Records is out of print.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 24, 2018book, out of print, technique, instruction, frank hatchett

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: 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.

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

Frank Hatchett's Jazz Dance

Frank Hatchett’s Jazz Dance is an instructional text that is currently out of print.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeJune 26, 2018book, instruction, technique, out of print, frank hatchett, vop

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