{"product_id":"the-black-dancing-body-a-geography-from-coon-to-cool-9780312240479","title":"The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool","description":"\u003cp\u003eWatching contemporary American dance is a unique and electrifying experience. Swept along with the dancers  one wonders how the unorthodox movement and unexpected tempo came about. To provide at least one answer to this question  Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts a \"geography\" that maps a unique  yet startlingly ubiquitous  region of influence in the history of American dance: the black dancing body. The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says  \"The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality  a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body.\" Using interviews with black  white  and brown dance practitioners as well as performance analysis and personal recollections of her own life in the world of dance  Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts the endeavors  ordeals  and triumphs of \"black\" dance and dancers by exposing perceptions  images  and assumptions  past and present. In her journey to discover the contours and importance of the black dancing body  the author spoke to some of the greatest dancers and choreographers of our time - Fernando Bujones  Trisha Brown  Garth Fagan  Bill T. Jones  Ralph Lemon  Meredith Monk  Merin Soto  Doug Elkins  Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and a cadre of their esteemed colleagues. The \"embattled territories\" of the black dancing body are probed chapter by chapter: feet  buttocks  hair  skin color. The whole of the black dancing body is \"re-membered\" in the final chapters on soul and spirit. The Black Dancing Body is a key to the ineffable rhythms and movement of dance in America. (20030721)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651955679285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312240473","price":287.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312240479.jpg?v=1781847413","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-black-dancing-body-a-geography-from-coon-to-cool-9780312240479","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}