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An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate
historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and
values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were
systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught,
and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has
largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance
practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory,
pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering
and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and
Black American culture.Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance
scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across
the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course
of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the
Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of
Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in
marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted
in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic
erosion of the roots. These chapters offer strategies for teaching
rooted jazz dance, examples for changing dance curriculums, and
artist perspectives on choreographing and performing jazz. Above
all, they emphasize the importance of centering Africanist and
African American principles, aesthetics, and values. Arguing that
the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism
in the United States, these essays challenge a century of
misappropriation and lean in to difficult conversations of
reparations for jazz dance. This volume overcomes a major roadblock
to racial justice in the dance field by amplifying the people and
culture responsible for the jazz language.
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