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The Black Dancing Body

A Geography From Coon to Cool

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  • © 2003

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  1. Brenda Dixon Gottschild
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Topography of Things to Come: Ruminations on Dancing in a Black Dancing Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Latitude I

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 2-11

    3. Black White Dance Dancers

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 12-40

    4. The Physical Terrain

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 41-81

    5. Position: Fernando Bujones and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Interview Excerpts)

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      Pages 82-96

    6. Location: Who’s There?

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      Pages 97-99

  3. Mapping the Territories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Latitude II

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 102-107

    3. Feet

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 108-143

    4. Butt

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 144-187

    5. Skin/Hair

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 188-218

    6. Location: To Be or Not … (Continued from Location: Who’s There?)

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      Pages 219-220

  4. The Continent

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Latitude III

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 222-225

    3. Soul/Spirit

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      Pages 226-258

    4. Blood Memories, Spirit Dances

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 259-280

    5. Position: From Coon to Cool

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 281-299

    6. Location: Horizon

      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild
      Pages 300-301

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 302-332
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What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.

About the author

Brenda Dixon Gottschild is professor emerita of Dance Studies at Temple University and a former senior consultant/writer for Dance Magazine. She is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Waltzing in the Dark, and The Black Dancing Body. Dixon Gottschild is the recipient of the 2013 Scholar Award from the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

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