Provides biographical and historical information on a group of African-American artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize dance of the

Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves

Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influen

He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ai

Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in