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!
AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film DVD (DVD)by n/a
Where to buy: Amazon.com
African Dance: An Artistic, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
by Kariamu Welsh-Asante
Where to buy: Amazon.com
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
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Black Dance
by Edward Thorpe
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People
by James Haskins
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Black Dance: From 1619 to Today
by Lynne Fauley Emery
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Dancing Many Drums: excavations in African American Dance
by ed. Thomas DeFrantz
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Deep Blues VHS
by n/a
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Where to buy: Amazon.com
From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930
by Thomas L. Morgan, William Barlow
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Functions of African and American Negro secular dances: Parallel answers and research questions
by Judith Lynne Hanna
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Jazz Dance
by Marshall & Jean Stearns
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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance (Folklore and Society)
by Jacqui Malone
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Stomping the Blues
by Albert Murray
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Swingin' the Blues
by Erin Stevens, Tami Stevens and Scott Price, Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association
Where to buy: http://www.swingdanceshop.com/swinginblues.html
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Where to buy: Amazon.com
The Black Tradition in American Dance
by Richard A. Long
Where to buy: Amazon.com
The Spirit Moves, Part 1: Jazz Dance fom the Turn of the century to 1950
by n/a
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Where to buy: http://www.swingdanceshop.com/par1jazdan19.html
The Spirit Moves, Part 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem, 1950's (Vintage Blues- Ballrooming)
by n/a
Where to buy: http://www.swingdanceshop.com/par2savbalof.html
Waltzing in the Dark : African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Where to buy: Amazon.com
