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This book is a compilation of essays by distinguished writers, critics, and artists in the field of Dance and African American Studies who address several areas and disciplines of African dance both on the continent and in the diaspora. Sir Rex Nettleford, the distinguished Jamaican choreographer, professor and writer, stresses in the foreword to the book, the continuity between all dances that derive from Africa and the significance of this book. African dance, he argues, is a dominant, pervasive and empowering force in African communities. The four areas covered in the book are tradition, tradition and continuity, tradition transformed, and tradition contextualized. African, Brazilian, Caribbean and African American scholars each focus on some aspect of African dance which provide the patterns that connect. African Dance is text and, as such, it is a document that can be used for historical, philosophical and aesthetic information. Besides Sir Rex Nettleford, other contributors to this book include Pearl Primus, Mawere Opoku, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Myriam Evelyse Mariani, Cynthia S'thembile West and Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi. Dr. Kariamu Welsh Asante received her doctorate from New York University in Dance History. She is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University where she teaches African and African American dance as well as courses in aesthetics, social philosophy and art. This book is a compilation of essays by distinguished writers, critics, and artists in the field of Dance and African American Studies who address several areas and disciplines of African dance both on the continent and in the diaspora. Sir Rex Nettleford, the distinguished Jamaican choreographer, professor and writer, stresses in the foreword to the book, the continuity between all dances that derive from Africa and the significance of this book. African dance, he argues, is a dominant, pervasive and empowering force in African communities.

The four areas covered in the book are tradition, tradition and continuity, tradition transformed, and tradition contextualized. African, Brazilian, Caribbean and African American scholars each focus on some aspect of African dance which provide the patterns that connect. "African Dance" is text and, as such, it is a document that can be used for historical, philosophical and aesthetic information. Besides Sir Rex Nettleford, other contributors to this book include Pearl Primus, Mawere Opoku, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Myriam Evelyse Mariani, Cynthia S'thembile West and Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi.

AFRICAN DANCE Contents Acknowledgements In Memory of Pearl Primus (Kariamu Welsh) Foreword (Sir Rex Nettleford) TRADITION African Dance (Pearl Primus) Traditional Dance in Africa (Doris Green) A Panoply of African Dance Dynamics (Esilokun Kinni-Olusanyin) TRADITION AND CONTINUITY African Dance: Transition and Continuity (Robert W. Nicholls) African Dance: Bridges to Humanity (Tracy D. Snipe) African Influences in Brazilian Dance (Myriam Evelyse Marian) TRADITION TRANSFORMED Dancing Under the Lash: Sociocultural Disruption, Continuity, and Synthesis (Katrina Hazzard-Gordon) Dianne McIntyre: A Twentieth Century African-American Griot (Cynthia S’thembile West) Tap Dance: Manifestation of the African Aesthetic (Cheryl Willis) TRADITION CONTEXTUALIZED Traditional African Dance in Context (Felix Begho) In Contest: The Dynamics of African Religious Dances (Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi) The Zimbabwean Dance Aesthetic: Senses, Canons and Characteristics (Kariamu Welsh Asante) A Bibliographic Essay and Selected Bibliography of African Dance (Glendola Yhema Mills) CONTRIBUTORS This book is a compilation of essays by distinguished writers, critics and artists in the field of Dance and African American Studies who address several areas and disciplines of African dance both on the continent and in the diaspora. Sir Rex Nettleford, the distinguished Jamaican choreographer, professor and writer, stresses in the foreword to the book, the continuity between all dances that derive from Africa and the significance of this book. African dance, he argues, is a dominant, pervasive and empowering force in African communities. The four themes covered are tradition, tradition and continuity, tradition transformed, and tradition contextualized. African, Brazilian, Caribbean and African American scholars each focus on some aspect of African dance that provide the connecting patterns. Besides Sir Rex Nettleford, other contributors to this book include Pearl Primus, Maware Opoku, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Myriam Evelyse Mariani, Cynthia S'thembile West and Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi. Very early in her research the investigator learned that people who truly dance are those who have never bartered the fierce freedom of their souls, never strangled their hunger for rhythmic movement, nor frustrated their joyous physical response to music and song.