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“yvonne daniel”

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  • Hot Feet and Social Change

    African Dance and Diaspora Communities

    by Esailama Diouf, Yvonne Daniel, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, James Counts Early, Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius0, Charles Davis1, Indira Etwaroo2, Habib Iddrisu3, Julie B. Johnson4, C. Kemal Nance5, Halifu Osumare6, Amaniyea Payne7, William Serrano-Franklin8, Kariamu Welsh9 ...
    The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays challenges ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake

    A Social and Popular Dance Reader

    by Julie Malnig, Julie Malnig, Elizabeth Aldrich, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Yvonne Daniel, Sherril Dodds, Lisa Doolittle, David F García, Nadine George-Graves, Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Constance Valis Hill0, Karen W Hubbard1, Tim Lawrence2, Carol Martin3, Juliet McMains4, Terry Monaghan5, Halifu Osumare6, Sally R Sommer7, May Gwin Waggoner8, Tim Wall9, Christina Zanfagna0 ...
    This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry. The essays cover different historical periods and styles; encompass regional influences from North and South America, Britain, Europe, and Africa; and emphasize a variety of methodological ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Francine, the Fish and Chez, the Cat

    The Story of an Unlikely Friendship

    by Yvonne Daniel Head Cannon Ed.S ...
    The story of Francine and Chez was inspired when my younger son, Herman was in the second grade. Have you ever thought about how you and your best friend became friends? Friends are always kind to each other. They never try to get you to do anything that your parents would not approve of you doing. They are respectful to themselves, to their parents, to your parents, to other adults, as well as to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    The History

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    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... Read more

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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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    by Jesse McCarthy ...
    **2022 Whiting Award Winner for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)Best Books of the Year: TIME, Kirkus Reviews"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." —Zadie SmithA supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.**Ranging ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • I Want to Be Ready

    Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

    by Danielle Goldman ...
    "Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • To Be An Artist

    by Camille Colatosti ...
    To Be An Artist is a conversation with today’s successful and prominent artists from a variety of disciplinesâ€"musicians, visual artists, digital artists, poets, writers, activists and scholars. All of them discuss what it means to be an artist today, how they perceive their craft and their world, and the role of art in society. They agree that artists’ creativity and success come not only ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Exploring American Folk Music

    Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States

    by Kip Lornell ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun--and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States.The book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    by Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
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    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City

    by Amy E. Seham ...
    On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script create hilarious characters, sketches, and songs. Thrilled by the danger, the immediacy, and the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Black Cultural Traffic

    Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

    Edited by Kennell Jackson, Harry Justin Elam Jr. ...
    "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness ... Read more

    $28.79 USD