February Reading List

African American Social Dance or Why We Do What We Do?

Articles:

“2010-19: Refections Of A Black Woman In Dance Music” by Ash Lauryn, Resident Advisor, January 2020. https://ra.co/features/3592

“Black Women Helped Build House Music. Their Credit Is Often Left off Records” by Renee Jarreau, ZORA, July 2020. https://zora.medium.com/black-women-helped-build-house-music-their-credit-is-often-l eft-off-records-8fc505300bd1

“Remembering Black Female Dancers in Era Film,” by Robin Nunnally, Sister Kate Dance Company, February 2020 https://sisterkatedancecompany.com/black-history-month-remembering-black-female-dancers-i n-jazz-era-flm/

“10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due,” by Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, April 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/arts/music/women-jazz-musicians.html

"The Swingin' Lindy: Origins of A Legacy" by Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Arts & Culture for Google, June 2018, https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-swingin-lindy-origins-of-a-legacy-by-brenda-dixon- gottschild-lincoln-center/9wKyl1IJ7CwnJQ?hl=en

“With a kick and a spin, a sudden surge in soul line dancing,” by Victoria St. Martin, , June 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-a-kick-and-a-spin-a-sudden-surge-in-soul-line-danci ng/2016/06/26/9398c3ba-22af-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html

“Soul Line Dancing: Come For The Fitness. Stay For The Friendships,” by Maria Godoy, NPR, September 2019 https://wamu.org/story/19/09/22/soul-line-dancing-come-for-the-ftness-stay-for-the-friendship s/

Videos:

The History of African American Social Dance, Camille A. Brown, Ted. Ed., September 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCBMwAweDI&feature=emb_title

Dance And African-Ameircan Culture, Thomas F. DeFranz, Duke University, March 2012 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK09TwL1HzE 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A34OD4eA17o

The History of House Music with DJ Ali Coleman, Griot Lecture Series, Cue to 13:37: https://drive.google.com/fle/d/1rK0XWJ8-jx73RWgpkllopHWL0UF_xvIs/view?usp=sharing

Detroit Mix, The New Dance Show, 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiO5HMzLDko

2019 House Dance Battle Prelims, Ladies of Hip-Hop, July 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNsiC_BDcOo

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers From the 1941 flm Helzapoppin featuring Norma Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoJReiCaPk

Throw Me Anywhere Lord Buzzard Lope, John Davis, 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dGamWaYcLg&feature=emb_logo

Stormy Weather, Vernacular Jazz Sequence Featuring Katherine Dunham, 1943 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6kxNAsKPM

Podcast:

“Life and Death at the Paradise Garage,” Linette Lopez, Columbia Radio News, 2012 https://soundcloud.com/linette-lopez/life-and-death-at-the-paradise

“Jazz As Communal Practice,” Melanie Georgie for PillowDance at Jacob’s Pillow, February 2020 https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/jazz-as-communal-practice

“The Queen Of Swing Takes Old Age In Stride” Norma Miller & Renata Sago, NPR, November 15, 2015 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130699176

Books: “Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era,” Brenda Dixon Gottschild, April 2002 https://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Dark-American-Vaudeville-Politics/dp/0312294433/ref=pd_ sim_b_28

“Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems,” Alice Walker, August 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Times-Require-Furious-Dancing/dp/1608681882

“Jookin' The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, 2010 https://www.amazon.com/Jookin-Social-Formations-African-American-Culture/dp/0877229562 /ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jookin+the+rise+of+black+american+social+dance&qid=16117 09040&s=books&sr=1-1