作品情報

身体の記憶を通して、黒人ダンスの歴史と自己形成を結びつける。

ダンサー、教育者、研究者、活動家としての経験を重ねながら、黒人ダンスの文化史と自分自身のキャリアを同時に語る。学術的な視点と個人的な記憶が重なり、読み物としても記録としても厚みのある一冊になっている。

書籍情報

出版社

Univ Pr of Florida

発売日

2018-03-06

ページ数

378ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm

ISBN-13

9780813056616

ISBN-10

0813056616

価格

7139 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/History/Africa/Ghana

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career. Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching "jazz ballet" and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln Center. After doing dance fieldwork in Ghana, Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oakland’s black dance scene. Osumare introduces readers to some of the major artistic movers and shakers she collaborated with throughout her career, including Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jean-Leon Destine, Alvin Ailey, and Donald McKayle. Now a black studies scholar, Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Her memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman.

Halifu Osumare , professor emerita of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop and The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves.

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