Angela Fatou Gittens
Biographic Data
| ID | 653126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Fatou Gittens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela Fatou |
| FAMILY NAME | Gittens |
| SIGNATURE | GITTENS A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Dance and the Fight for Flight: Sabar and the Transformation and Cultural Significance of Dance from West Africa to Black America (1960-2010)
The arts have fulfilled a major historical role as mediums of expressivity for people of African descent during the 1960s. It is during this important decade that a number of political and artistic movements came to rise—like a pot waiting to boil over—as a result of decades of sociopolitical precedents that came to a head, sparking revolutionary responses by grassroots communities worldwide. This body of writing is an excerpt of a larger study t…
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Black Dance and the Fight for Flight: Sabar and the Transformation and Cultural Significance of Dance from West Africa to Black America (1960-2010)
The arts have fulfilled a major historical role as mediums of expressivity for people of African descent during the 1960s. It is during this important decade that a number of political and artistic movements came to rise—like a pot waiting to boil over—as a result of decades of sociopolitical precedents that came to a head, sparking revolutionary responses by grassroots communities worldwide. This body of writing is an excerpt of a larger study t…
Aesthetics (1 works) · African descent (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Dance (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Grassroots (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies (1 works) · Modern dance (1 works)