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Dancing revelations: Alvin Ailey's embodiment of African American culture
Thomas DeFrantz-
Frontmatter
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Introduction (page xiii)
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ONE Revelations 1962 (page 3)
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Why Revelations Worked (page 14)
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BREAK Black Modernism (page 19)
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Situating Revelations in African American Cultural Life (page 23)
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TWO Early Dances (page 26)
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Ailey's Childhood: Race Matters (page 27)
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BREAK Unquenchable Racial Desire (page 35)
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Blues Suite (page 38)
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Ailey's Early Dances (page 44)
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Hermit Songs (page 46)
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THREE Early Company (page 51)
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Early Years in New York (page 54)
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Early Residencies (page 57)
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Southeast Asia Tour (page 60)
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BREAK "Official" African American Culture (page 69)
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Riedaiglia (page 73)
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FOUR Revelations II: 1969 (page 75)
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BREAK Versioning (page 82)
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Multiracial Concert Dance (page 85)
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Revelations 1975 (page 89)
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FIVE Touring, Touring, Touring (page 93)
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Quintet (page 94)
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Swelling Popularity (page 99)
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BREAK Jazz Dance (page 101)
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Flowers (page 104)
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The Popular Audience (page 108)
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BREAK No Exit from Racism (page 112)
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SIX Reflecting a Spectrum of Experience (page 115)
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Masekela Language (page 117)
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The Lark Ascending (page 127)
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Hidden Rites (page 130)
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SEVEN Other Dances (page 136)
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Feast of Ashes (page 137)
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BREAK Black Dancer, White Dance (page 145)
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The River (page 148)
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EIGHT Ailey Celebrates Ellington (page 160)
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The Ellington Connection (page 161)
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BREAK Heroes (page 167)
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Ailey Celebrates Ellington (page 171)
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Pas de "Duke" (page 174)
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Ellingtonia (page 177)
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NINE Gender and Spectatorship (page 180)
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Cry (page 182)
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Love Songs (page 185)
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Masked Spectatorship: Ailey's Representation of Sexuality (page 188)
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BREAK Sex (page 189)
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Streams (page 192)
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BREAK Black Atlantic Dance (page 197)
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TEN Later Dances (page 200)
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Memoria (page 205)
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Au Bord du Precipice (page 213)
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Survivors (page 223)
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BREAK Alvin Ailey, Public and Private (page 229)
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ELEVEN Concluding Moves (page 232)
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The Ailey after Ailey (page 235)
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Revelations 2003 (page 236)
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APPENDIX Choreography by Alvin Ailey (page 241)
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Notes (page 257)
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Bibliography (page 275)
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Index (page 289)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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DRJ | 37.1 (Summer 2005): 135-138 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20444627 |
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Citable Link
Published: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780199882434 (ebook)
- 9780195301717 (paper)
- 9780195154191 (hardcover)