The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows :

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.

Digging the Africanist presence in American performance : dance
and other contexts / Brenda Dixon Gottschild.

p. cm.--(Contributions in Afro-American and African
studies, ISSN 0069-9624; no. 179)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-313-29684-7 (alk. paper)

1. Afro-Americans in the performing arts. 2. Afro-American dance.

I. Title. II. Series.

PN1590.B53G68 1996

791′.08996073-dc20 95-20558

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright © 1996, 1998 by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

A hardcover edition of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance
is available from Greenwood Press, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing
Group, Inc. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, Number 179;
ISBN 0-313-29684-7).

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-20558

ISSN: 0-275-96373-X (pbk.)

First published in 1996

Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
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