Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance / Gale P. Jackson.

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"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performance. In enga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Gale, 1958- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Subjects:	African American women > Music > History and criticism. Enslaved persons > Southern States > Music > History and criticism. African Americans > Music > History and criticism. African American dance > History. African American women dancers. African Americans > History. African American dance. African Americans. African Americans > Music. Southern States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Physical Description:	xvii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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