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Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index

Book by Bernard L. Peterson Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

African American Dramatists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Bibliography, American Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Drama--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts." Reference Books Bulletin
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1996

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that the peculiarities of the Black American experience transform them into...Epic Sign for a Generation," Black American Poets Between Worlds , 1940-1960...and less politically correct black Americans; the one-act String produced...
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Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer

Book by Carolyn Wedin Sylvander; Whitston, 1981

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book presents a clear and accurate portrayal of a black woman writer. Sylvander illustrates Fauset as a black woman who defied the traditional expectations of a society and who wrote with an awareness of racial and sexual themes.
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Modern Black American Fiction Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House Publishers, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

MODERN BLACK AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS Writers of English: Lives and Works MODERN BLACK AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS Edited and with...Designer Rae Grant Staff for MODERN BLACK AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS Assistant Editor...
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Black American Women Fiction Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1994

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN FICTION WRITERS Writers of English: Lives and Works BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN FICTION WRITERS Edited and...Series Design Rae Grant Staff for BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN FICTION WRITERS Assistant Editor...

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Dancing the "Clearing" in Academia

Journal article by Ingrid Reneau; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 28, 2004

Subjects:

African Americans--Social aspects, African culture--Evaluation, Cultural identity--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

Dancing the "Clearing" in Academia...mainstay of twentieth century American literary cannon. Written...Christians assertion that Black women writers like Morrison...Reneau, Ingrid (2000), "Dancing the Clearing in African...Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Womens Writers: The Preaching...
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Dancing out of Form, Dancing into Self: Genre and Metaphor in Marshall, Shange, and Walker

Journal article by Barbara Frey Waxman; MELUS, Vol. 19, 1994

Subjects:

Dancing--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Intertextuality--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Marshall, Paule--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Shange, Ntozake--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Walker, Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Gotfrits conception of the sexual politics of dancing applies to these texts. Thus, an African American woman writer may be drawn to dance for its...Spurlins assertion that text-centered readings of black texts and discussions of such "black" literary...
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Metanarrative in Ethnic Autobiography for Children: Laurence Yep's the Lost Garden and Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

Journal article by Rocio G. Davis; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002

Subjects:

Autobiographies, Children's literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ethnicity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ortiz Cofer, Judith--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Self--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Lost Garden (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Yep, Laurence--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...was the Chinese American raised in a black neighborhood...text, as an Asian American autobiography...Cofers Silent Dancing, awarded the 1991...United States." American Autobiography...Ortiz. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance...
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Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit

Journal article by Kenneth J. Bindas; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 26, 2000

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...popular consciousness. Suzanne Smiths Dancing in the Street helps to explain why and...in a city that boasted a proud African-American cultural legacy. Yet as the 1950s gave...over the definition of Motown. Was it a black-owned business (with all of the implied...
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Lorenzo Thomas. Dancing on Main Street

Journal article by Van G. Garrett; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Dancing on Main Street (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...144 pp. $15.00. Dancing on Main Street the...major figure in the Black Arts Movement. The...Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, African American Review, Xavier Review...sure was tasty!
Dancing on Main Street is...writes of the African American experience, especially...

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Dancing for Fame

Magazine article by Taiia Smart Young; Black Enterprise, Vol. 33, October 2002

Subjects:

African American teenage girls--Personal narratives, Dancers, McCracken, Perris

Collections: Entire Library

Dancing for fame by Taiia...such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Perris...becoming an FBI agent, and dancing for a professional troupe...kicking up her heels for the American Ballet Theatre or Bob...JOIN A CLASS. Start dancing with a school dance troupe...
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Dancing to a Different Beat

Magazine article by Caroline V. Clarke; Black Enterprise, Vol. 29, February 1999

Subjects:

African Americans--Employment, Entertainment industry--Personalities, Self-employed persons--Conduct of life, Stunt men and women--Conduct of life

Collections: Entire Library

...market way I do. And my dancing background helps me do...rare, tack on African American, and you have a real...group specifically for black stunt people, and Weeden is aware of only 26 black stuntwomen. Although...available to African American women are limited--and...
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Black Grace

Magazine article by Lisa Rinehart; Dance Magazine, Vol. 80, January 2006

Subjects:

Black Grace (Dance), Dancing--Dance reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...going on in New Zealand than jet boating and bungee jumping. Neil Ieremias all-male troupe, Black Grace, an amalgam of Samoan tribal dance and American modern dance, transcends its beginnings without losing sight of its roots. This is more difficult...
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The Salsa Explosion: African-Americans Find Roots and Rhythm in Salsa Dancing

Magazine article by Jr. Nathaniel Sheppard; Ebony, Vol. 62, June 2007

Subjects:

African Americans--Social aspects, Dance--Evaluation, Dance--Social aspects, Dancing--Evaluation, Dancing--Social aspects, Salsa, Salsa (Music)

Collections: Entire Library

...has increased substantially. Despite a majority Black population, African-Americans were few in number at Atlanta salsa clubs just...link African-Americans have with salsa music and dancing. "We are more than just descendants of slaves inquiring...
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Dancing toward That Good Night

Magazine article by Kaija Pepper; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 114, Fall 2007

Subjects:

Dance--Analysis, Dancers--Appreciation, Dancers--Practice, Dancing--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...of her movement. The great American choreographer was notoriously...Nureyev, he was mid-thirties, dancing with an early twenties Kain...mostly in the same tasteful black as me, I felt completely isolated...choreographing to punk music and dancing on the beach for community...

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A Tap-Dancer with the Luck of the Irish: Black American Lands Featured Role in 'Riverdance'

Newspaper article by Jayne M. Blanchard; The Washington Times, August 27, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...As the first black female tap...tribute to American tap sequence...from the Irish dancing, obviously...sequence featured black dancers in...changed if American tappers were...learn Irish dancing. "The vocabulary...are lower, so American tappers get...She started dancing at the age...
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DIARMUID IN A SPIN; EXCLUSIVE ON TV DANCING.. I Am from Dublin and I'm Not Black So I Haven't Got ANY Rhythm. I Can't Do It! ON THE OUTFITS.. I Can't Wear That Suit. I'm Pale, Hairy and Fat. I Couldn't Look at Myself in the Mirror

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), October 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...hit show Strictly Come Dancing, Diarmuid cant bear to...his dance partner Latin American expert Nicole Cutler...Esther Rantzen, Roger Black, Quentin Willson, Carol...from Dublin and I am not black so I havent got any rhythm...flirting with his new TV dancing partner. The BBC newsgirl...
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Teenage Girls Will Have the Time of Their Lives; HOW GOOD IS DIRTY DANCING? LITE REVIEWERS GIVE CONTRASTING VERDICTS

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 25, 2006

Subjects:

Dirty Dancing (Motion picture), Teenage girls

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...above sex - a bit. Dirty Dancing, like Tony Kushners Caroline...the upheavals of 1963: black civil rights protests...Corps are giving young American chances to help the poor...conflict over class, American materialism and the Sixties...from Johnny in the new dancing and Sixties permissive...
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SECRETS OF FLIRTY DANCING; It Is One of the Most Sensual of Human Rituals, as Well as Being a Great Way to Get Fit. Now, in the Biggest Boom since the Disco-Mad 70s, Dance Fever Is Sweeping the Whole Country

Newspaper article by Margaret Mallon; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 8, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...years ago, when I met an American tap master while I was dancing in Riverdance. "Before that I had danced classical...and stylish. "Its based on techniques developed by black American street tap dancers, such as the Nicholas Brothers and...
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Dancing 'Til I Drop; Alun Prichard on How Aled Jones Is Battling with Nerves as He Prepares to Win over the Public with His Ballroom Dancing

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 2, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wilson and atheletes Roger Black and Den is Lewis for...something like 48 hours of dancing, he says. ``And it...weddings before, and Latin American really make me panic...round but with Latin American, youve got to kick out...limply. Strictly Come Dancing BBC1, October 23

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Brian Friels Dancing at Lughnasa...and in such American plays as Jason...1967) explored black American life...centurys African-American playwrights...with Ma Raineys Black Bottom and continued...to define the black American experience in...
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Rock Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues...was no longer just for dancing. After 1964 the music...the Ramones and other American groups. By the early...music considerably as Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys...
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Robinson, Bill

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ROBINSON, BILL 1878 1949, African-American tap dancer popularly known as "Bojangles...style. For many years he performed on the black entertainment circuit, joining (1886...successful stage and nightclub career, and dancing for years in vaudeville. Robinson achieved...
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Brown, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BROWN, JAMES 1933 2006, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer known as the...presence often screaming (on key) and dancing acrobatically Brown was a true innovator...a Mans, Mans, Mans World (1966), the Black Pride anthem Say It Loud (1968), and...
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Rabe, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

RABE, DAVID 1940 , American playwright, b. Dubuque, Iowa; grad...Problem (2000), a dark comedy; and The Black Monk (2002). He has written the screen...and other film scripts, e.g., for Im Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), Casualties...

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