Dancing the Diaspora: Tracing the Africanist Presence in Afro-Caribbean and American Worlds

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Traces a genealogy of dance and choreographic practice in the Afro-Caribbean and American worlds. Examination of a range of interdisciplinary texts, from theoretical discourses surrounding issues of race, blackness and collective, diasporic identity to dance histories of religious and concert stage traditions, to art historical texts that deepen our aesthetic understanding of dancing bodies in West African and Africanist religious ritual and secular performance.