Between Primitivism and Diaspora
The Dance Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4816045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthea Kraut (0000-0002-9986-978X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-450 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2003.0125 |
| OpenAlex | W2036563223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article situates Hurston's largely neglected theatrical presentations of West Indian folk dance alongside the better-known dance work of Baker and Dunham in order to trace shifts in the racialized meanings surrounding black vernacular dance stagings in the early decades of the twentieth century. A comparative survey of the three artists exposes an important if complicated historical transition from stereotypical representations of black primitivity to more nuanced representations of a black diaspora
Art · Art history · Contemporary dance · Dance · Diaspora · Electronic dance music · Literature · Sociology · Vernacular · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Theater, Performance, and Music History
Dance That “Suggested Nothing but Itself”
Choreographing Time Travel
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Myths of Primitiveness
Visceral Data for Dance Histories
Gorgeous Girlies in Glittering Gyrations
Moving outside of the circle of mainstream inquiry
Ambivalent mimicry in Enomoto Kenichi's wartime comedy
Queens’ diaspora
A Taste of Louisiana
Unpeeling the banana dance
Black and Blue
Queering Sonnets
Protective Styles
Mapping Touring
Harlem Knows”
Maya Plisetskaya's The Carmen-Suite
Zora Neale Hurston, Biographical Criticism, and African Diasporic Vernacular Culture
Corpo em diáspora
The Symphony of State
La estética de las religiones afrocubanas en la refracción de escenarios trasatlánticos
Routes
The black Atlantic
History and memory in African-American culture
The Predicament of Culture
The Third Eye
The Myth of the Negro Past
Ecstasy and the Demon
Wrapped in Rainbows
Modernist Anthropology
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940
The Uses of Diaspora
Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas
Katherine Dunham
Josephine Baker and Paul Colin
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |