| Contents |
Introduction / Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R. A. Jones, and Wendy Oliver -- I am Jazz / Cory Bowles -- Part I. The Place of Jazz Dance in the Twenty-First Century United States -- An Overview of Jazz Dance in the Twenty-First Century / Melanie George -- Professional Jazz Dance in North America / Wendy Oliver -- Whiteness and the Fractured Jazz Dance Continuum / Lindsay Guarino -- The Morphology of Afro-kinetic Memory: A Provocative Analysis of Marginalized Jazz Dance / E. Moncell Durden -- Part II. Analyzing Aesthetics -- Africanist Elements in American Jazz Dance / Julie Kerr-Berry -- Jazz Dance Technique, Aesthetics and Racial Supremacy / Carlos R. A. Jones -- Where's the Jazz? A Multi-Layered Approach for Viewing and Discussing Jazz Dance / Lindsay Guarino -- Part III. Choreography & Performance of Jazz Dance: Personal Artist Statements -- Must Be the Music / LaTasha Barnes -- Riding Rhythms and Designing Space: Jazz Dance Composition / Carlos R. A. Jones -- Jazz is a Feeling . . . / Adrienne Hawkins -- A Strange Place to Find Jazz . . . / Kimberley Cooper -- Part III. Choreography & Performance of Jazz Dance: Rooted Concepts -- The Duality of the Black Experience as Jazz Language / Pat Taylor -- Performing Gender: Disrupting Performance Norms for Women in Jazz Dance Through Gender-Inclusive, Human-Centric Choreography / Brandi Coleman -- Considering Jazz Choreography / Melanie George -- Part IV: Teaching Jazz Dance -- Valuing Cultural Context and Style: Strategies for Teaching Traditional Jazz Dance from the Inside Out / Karen W. Hubbard -- Cultivating African Diasporic Ethos and Cultural Values in Contemporary Jazz Dance / Monique Marie Haley -- Jazz Dance Pedagogy: Its Own Thing / Paula J. Peters -- Reframing the Jazz Narrative in the High School Classroom / Jessie Metcalf McCullough -- Countering Cultural Dissonance in a Graduate Jazz Dance Course / Patricia Cohen -- Preparing a Lecture-Demonstration on the History/Styles of Jazz Dance for K-12 Students / Lynnette Young Overby -- To Topple, Not Maintain: Changing Pedagogical Practice in the College Jazz Dance History Course / Karen Clemente -- Part V. The Future of Jazz Dance -- Connective Threads: Jazz Aesthetics, Jazz Music, and the Future of Jazz Dance Studies / Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver -- My Truth, My Self, Our Way Forward / Carlos R. A. Jones -- Appendix I. Jazz Music Glossary / Wendy Oliver, Rubim de Toledo, and Joanne Baker -- Appendix II. Experimenting with Time Signatures / Vicki Adams Willis, Joanne Baker, and Jamie Freeman Cormack -- Appendix III. Music Inspiration. |
| Abstract |
"Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States, these essays challenge a century of misappropriation and lean in to difficult conversations of reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major roadblock to racial justice in the dance field by amplifying the people and culture responsible for the jazz language"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rooted jazz dance 1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2022 9780813057972 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021031918 |
| ISBN | 9780813069111 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0813069114 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# |
40030966334 |
