Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman [[electronic resource] ] : Black History and Poetics in Performance / / Gale P. Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480872003321
• Autore: Jackson Gale <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
• ISBN: 1-4962-2092-7; 1-4962-2090-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 305.48/896073
• Soggetti: African Americans - History; African American women dancers; African American dance - History; African Americans - Music - History and criticism; Enslaved persons - Southern States - Music - History and criticism; African American women - Music - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction to the Way we do -- Juba danced -- The ancestors and the lullaby -- Put your hands on your hips : rites of passage in performance -- Rosy, Possum, Morning Star : work songs and the blues.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--