DANCING REVELATIONS:ALVIN AILEY'S EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture - Image 1

£35.14

Oxford University Press DANCING REVELATIONS:ALVIN AILEY'S EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

Name: DANCING REVELATIONS:ALVIN AILEY'S EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 35.14 GBP
Availability: InStock

9780195301717

Dance

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£35 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 4 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 30 days • 30 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 30 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £42 (20 days, 66.7%)

Price range: £35 - £42

Price levels: 3 different prices over 30 days

Description

In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century. DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution. Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culture in his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural

Key Features

New

Mint Condition

Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon

Guaranteed packaging

No quibbles returns

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Model: 9780195301717
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0195301714
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Dance
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 February 2006
Listed Since: 19 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press DANCING REVELATIONS:ALVIN AILEY'S EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Edges of Ailey

The Black Dance Anthology

Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity

British Dance: Black Routes

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema

Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (Oxford Handbooks)

The Intellect Handbook of Dance Education Research

Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement

Fire Under My Feet: History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance (Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance)

Discovering Dance

World Dance Cultures: From Ritual to Spectacle

Routledge Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion

Music and Dance in Eastern Africa: Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960

The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels: The Darkness Beyond the Stage-Lit Dream

Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) (Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 032)

Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts

Dance Cultures Around the World

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance: Socially Relevant and Personally Resonant Dance Education

Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies (New World Choreographies)

Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm [2 volumes] (Greenwood Icons)