Recommended Reading & Viewing
We've been compiling a list of videos and books that we think will add to your
knowledge and understanding of Blues dancing. This list is by no means comprehensive
and continues to grow; be sure to let us know if you've seen a movie or read a book
that we should include on this list.
In addition, we'd love to know whether these books were of any use to you in your research and include any reviews that our readers may have. If you have something to contribute, please let us know!
African-American dance in curricula: modes of inclusion. (Pathways to Aesthetic Literacy: Revealing Culture in the Dance Curriculum) : An article from: ... of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance [HTML] (Digital) by Kariamu Welsh Asante Review
Modern Dance Negro Dance: Race in Motion by Susan Manning Review
Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall Winslow Stearns, Jean Stearns Review
Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance (Folklore and Society) by Jacqui Malone
ReviewBlack Dance: From 1619 to Today by Lynne Fauley Emery
Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Black Dance by Edward Thorpe
Waltzing in the Dark : African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
African Dance: An Artistic, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry by Kariamu Welsh-Asante (Editor), Kariamu Welsh Asante (Editor)
Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Dancing Many Drums: excavations in African American Dance, ed. Thomas DeFrantz, University of Wisconsin Press 2002
Functions of African and American Negro secular dances: Parallel answers and research questions by Judith Lynne Hanna
The Black Tradition in American Dance by Richard A. Long
Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray
From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930 by Thomas L. Morgan, William Barlow
Videos:
AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film DVD (DVD)
Swingin' the Blues (with Erin Stevens, Tami Stevens and Scott Price of Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association (PBDA)
The Spirit Moves, Part 1: Jazz Dance fom the Turn of the century to 1950 Dances include the Cakewalk, Charleston, Boogie-woogie, Shimmy, Susie-Q, Snake hips, Black bottom, Fish tail, Savoy Lindy Hop, Blues, Calypso, Applejack
The Spirit Moves, Part 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem, 1950'sVintage Blues - Ballrooming
