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.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeMarch 27, 2022book, in print, essays, jazz history, frank hatchett, pepsi bethel, matt mattox, wendy oliver, lindsay guarino, melanie george, bob fosse, jack cole, social dance, pop culture, classical jazz

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.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 28, 2018book, in print, essays, jazz history, frank hatchett, pepsi bethel, matt mattox, wendy oliver, lindsay guarino, melanie george, bob fosse, jack cole, social dance, pop culture, classical jazz

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