02619oam 22005294a 450 991082780580332120220104171850.01-4962-2092-71-4962-2090-0(CKB)4100000010348278(OCoLC)1141666543(MdBmJHUP)muse81413(MiAaPQ)EBC6118191(EXLCZ)99410000001034827820190913d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPut Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman[electronic resource] Black History and Poetics in Performance /Gale P. JacksonLincoln University of Nebraska Press[2020]1 online resource1-4962-1768-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher.African AmericansHistoryAfrican American women dancersAfrican American danceHistoryAfrican AmericansMusicHistory and criticismEnslaved personsSouthern StatesMusicHistory and criticismlocalAfrican American womenMusicHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansHistory.African American women dancers.African American danceHistory.African AmericansMusicHistory and criticism.Enslaved personsMusicHistory and criticism.African American womenMusicHistory and criticism.305.48/896073Jackson Gale1958-1645332MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910827805803321Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman3991721UNINA