Title: The Black dancing body : a geography from coon to cool /
Authors: Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2003
Subjects: African American dance History.; African American dancers.; Body image.
Abstract: "Watching contemporary American dance is a unique and electrifying experience. Swept along with the dancers, one wonders how the unorthodox movement and unexpected tempo came about. To provide at least one answer to this question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts a "geography" that maps a unique, yet startlingly ubiquitous, region of influence in the history of American dance: the black dancing body.