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Modern Moves - Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras (Hardcover)
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Modern Moves - Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras (Hardcover)
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Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles
between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and
migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central
focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic
streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the
growth of the city's African American community particularly as it
centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid
dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author
Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as
the result of the co-mingling of dance traditions from different
cultural and racial backgrounds in the same urban social spaces.
The results of these cross-cultural collisions in New York City, as
she argues, were far greater than passing dance trends; they in
fact laid the foundation for the twentieth century's social dancing
practices throughout the United States. By looking at dance as
social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book
demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity
itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of
African diasporic peoples - even as they were excluded from its
rewards. A cornerstone in Robinson's argument is the changing role
of the dance instructor, which was transformed from the proprietor
of a small-scale, local dance school at the end of the nineteenth
century to a member of a distinct, self-identified social industry
at the beginning of the twentieth. Whereas dance studies has been
slow to connect early twentieth century dancing with period racial
politics, Modern Moves departs radically from prior scholarship on
the topic, and in so doing, revises social and African American
dance history of this period. Recognizing the rac(ial)ist
beginnings of contemporary American social dancing, it offers a
window into the ways that dancing throughout the twentieth century
has provided a key means through which diverse groups of people
have navigated shifting socio-political relations through their
bodily movement. Modern Moves asserts that the social practice of
modern dancing, with its perceived black origins, empowered
displaced people such as migrants and immigrants to grapple with
the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of
North American modernity. Far more than simple appropriation, the
selling and practicing of "black" dances during the 1910s and 1920s
reinforced whiteness as the ideal racial status in America through
embodied and rhetorical engagements with period black stereotypes.
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