Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance /
Jackson, Gale, 1958-
Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance / Gale P. Jackson. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Way we do -- Juba danced -- The ancestors and the lullaby -- Put your hands on your hips : rites of passage in performance -- Rosy, Possum, Morning Star : work songs and the blues -- Coda.
"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performance. In engaging these vibrant traditions, "Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman" provides a window into multiple discourses and new paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, and theory embedded in Black traditions"--
9781496220905 9781496220929 9781496220912
African American women--Music--History and criticism.
Enslaved persons--Music--History and criticism.--Southern States
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
African American dance--History.
African American women dancers.
African Americans--History.
Electronic Books.
ML3556 / .P889 2020
Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance / Gale P. Jackson. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Way we do -- Juba danced -- The ancestors and the lullaby -- Put your hands on your hips : rites of passage in performance -- Rosy, Possum, Morning Star : work songs and the blues -- Coda.
"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performance. In engaging these vibrant traditions, "Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman" provides a window into multiple discourses and new paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, and theory embedded in Black traditions"--
9781496220905 9781496220929 9781496220912
African American women--Music--History and criticism.
Enslaved persons--Music--History and criticism.--Southern States
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
African American dance--History.
African American women dancers.
African Americans--History.
Electronic Books.
ML3556 / .P889 2020