African American dance, an illustrated history.

Author: Glass, Barbara S

Published: 2007

Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating... [full description]

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Black Elk's religion, the Sun Dance and Lakota catholicism.

Author: Holler, Clyde

Published: 1995

The life of the great Lakota leader Black Elk, and the development of the Lakota Sun Dance - the central religious... [full description]

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Cherokee dance and drama.

Author: Speck, Frank G. & Leonard Brown

Published: 1993

A valuable source of reliable information concerning some of the traditional dances and ceremonies of the Eastern... [full description]

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Choreographing identities: folk dance, ethnicity, and festival in the United States and Canada.

Author: Shay, Anthony

Published: 2006

Among the customs immigrants have brought to America from their homelands are folk dances, which have become visual... [full description]

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Dancing with the Virgin, body and faith in the fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico.

Author: Sklar, Deidre

Published: 2001

The religious faith that motivates the annual Tortugas Festival drew the author to participate: she did kitchen work,... [full description]

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EmBODYing liberation, the black body in American dance.

Author: Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea

Published: 2001

A collection of essays considering the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized... [full description]

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From Quebradita to Duranguense: dance in Mexican American youth culture.

Author: Hutchinson, Sydney

Published: 2007

Quebradita, meaning 'little break' is a modern Mexican American dance style that became hugely popular in Los... [full description]

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Indian dances of North America.

Author: Laubin, Reginald & Gladys Laubin

Published: 1989

A standard and detailed work on the history and performance practices of North American Indian dances. Many... [full description]

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The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an offshoot of the Calumet Dance.

Author: Fenton, William N

Published: 1935, 1991

An exploration of the celebration of the Eagle Dance in New York and Canada during the 1930s, and its relationship to... [full description]

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Iroquois music and dance, Ceremonial arts of two Seneca longhouses.

Author: Kurath, Gertrude P

Published: 1964, 2000

In 1946, in the midst of her career as a modern creative dancer, Gertrude Kurath became acquainted with American Indian... [full description]

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Native American dance steps.

Author: Evans, Bessie & May G Evans

Published: 1931, 2003

Details of the varied steps that groups of Native Americans have used to express their dance ideas - from skips, jumps,... [full description]

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The people have never stopped dancing: Native American modern dance histories.

Author: Murphy, Jacqueline Shea

Published: 2007

During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North... [full description]

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