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Of,
By, and For the People
Dancing
on the Left in the 1930s
Edited
by Lynn Garafola
With a preface by Barbara Melosh
Studies
in Dance History
Published under the auspices of the Society of Dance History Scholars
This
pioneering volume sheds important new light on neglected aspects
of dance in the 1930s and the early 1940s—from the revolutionary
dance movement that led to the founding of the New Dance Group,
to the rediscovery of Africa and the "black Atlantic"
by African-American choreographers such as Asadata Dafora and
Katherine Dunham, to the Communist Party Pageants and the dance
writing of left-wing critic Edna Ocko. One essay explores the
1943 closing of the Savoy Ballroom, Harlem's biggest and most
famous dance hall, because of interracial fraternization. This
essay reveals to what extent black urban dances like the lindy
hop were bringing the races together, even as political forces
tried to keep them apart.
With contributions
by Russell Gold, Ellen Graff, Edna Ocko, John O. Perpener III,
Stacey Prickett, and Barbara Stratyner, the volume concludes
with a sampling of Edna Ocko's criticism from New Theatre
and The Daily Worker.
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122 pp. 8 1/2 x 11
ISBN 0-9653519-4-7 Paper $14.95 s
Distributed
for the Society of Dance History Scholars
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