Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
Subtitle: Black History and Poetics in Performance
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781496217684
Subjects: African american women; African americans, music, history and criticism; Slaves, united states, social conditions; African american dance; African americans, history
Description: "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 engaging these vibrant traditions, "Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman" provides a window into multiple discourses and new paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, and theory embedded in Black traditions"--