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Fire Under My Feet: History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance book cover

1st Edition

Fire Under My Feet History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

Edited By Ofosuwa M. Abiola Copyright 2022
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora. In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original... Read more

Part I Politicizing Black Bodies and the Appropriation of Identity

1 The Gaze of Power, Rebel Bodies, and the Specter of Savagery: African and African Descents Dances in the Narrative Eye of the Beholders in Puerto Rico during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Noel Allende Goitía

Part II Choreographing the African Diaspora in the Public Space

2 Rooting across Generations: Establishing British Caribbean Diasporic Identity through Dance

Tia-Monique Uzor

3 Visualizing African Diaspora Dance through the African American Dance Company and Visual Art

Katie E. Dieter

4 The Ruses of Memory in the Cinematic Choreographies of Delia Zapata Olivella: Dancing to Build Gender in the Public Sphere

Juan Suárez Ontaneda

Part III Dance, Spirituality, and the Embodiment of Cultural Continuity

5 Dance, Rhythm, and Ritual: Afro-Venezuelans in Resistance

Mesi Walton

6 Dancing African-Ness: The Transnational Identity of the Siddi Dammal

Anuran Dasgupta

7 Dance: A Catalyst for Spiritual Transcendence

Tamara Williams

Biography

Ofosuwa M. Abiola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Howard University. She is the author of History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance (2019) and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre.

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