TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Gale
TI  - Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman: Black history and poetics in performance 
SN  - 9781496220905
AV  - ML3556 .P889 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - African American women
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Southern States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African American dance
KW  - History
KW  - African American women dancers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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