{"product_id":"9780813080765-rooted-jazz-dance","title":"Rooted Jazz Dance","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfricanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUNCG   Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn 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. \u003cem\u003eRooted Jazz Dance\u003c\/em\u003e 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 curricula, and artist perspectives on choreographing and performing jazz. Above all, they emphasize the importance of centering Africanist and African American principles, aesthetics, and values. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguing 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 into 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003eLaTasha Barnes   Lindsay Guarino   Natasha Powell   Carlos R.A. Jones   Rubim de Toledo   Kim Fuller   Wendy Oliver   Joanne Baker   Karen Clemente   Vicki Adams Willis   Julie Kerr-Berry   Pat Taylor   Cory Bowles   Melanie George   Paula J Peters   Patricia Cohen   Brandi Coleman   Kimberley Cooper   Monique Marie Haley   Jamie Freeman Cormack   Adrienne Hawkins   Karen Hubbard   Lynnette Young Overby   Jessie Metcalf McCullough   E. Moncell Durden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55132589326710,"sku":"9780813080765","price":22.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37785475.jpg?v=1763013750","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813080765-rooted-jazz-dance","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}