Afro-American Core Culture Social Dance
An Examination of Four Aspects of Meaning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11223355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katrina Hazzard-Gordon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 21-26 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1478674 |
| OpenAlex | W2324121733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
Most scholarly work on Afro-American social dance has been concerned with its structural aspects, primarily the question of African retentions. The work of Melville Herskovits, Joann Kealiinohomoku, Linda Wharton and Jack L. Daniel, Chadwick Hansen, Robert Farris Thompson, John Q. Anderson, Gertrude P. Kurath, Jan Hertzberg, Lydia Parrish, and others has touched on this issue. Though this approach to the study of Afro-American vernacular dance is far from exhausted, it ignores certain significant aspects of black dance culture. Once it is established that the structural aspects of Afro-American dance are in fact African-derived, the researcher is free to raise questions concerning the function, meanings, and uses of the dance. The anthropologist-dancer Katherine Dunham has stated that dance has greater tenacity than any other cultural form and that it is the most permanent cultural link with the past. Certainly the dance of Afro-Americans is identifiable on the basis of its continuity with both traditional and contemporary African movement. Until recently, most Afro-Americans conducted their lives in relative isolation from whites. Isolation rather than inherent tenacity may explain the similarity between their dance forms and those of contemporary Africans
Aesthetics · Art · Contemporary dance · Dance · Epistemology · Isolation (microbiology) · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Modern dance · Sociology · Tenacity (mineralogy) · Vernacular · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2018 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |