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Jookin′

Buch | Hardcover
1 Seiten
1990
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87722-613-0 (ISBN)
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Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook, an underground cultural institution created by the black working class together with other dance arenas in African-American culture. Beginning with the effects of African slaves' middle passage experience on their traditional dances, she traces the unique and virtually autonomous dance culture that developed in the rural South. Like the blues, these secular dance forms and institutions were brought north and urbanized by migrating blacks. In northern cities, some aspects of black dance became integrated into white culture and commercialized. Focusing on ten African-American dance arenas from the period of enslavement to the mid-twentieth century, this book explores the jooks, honky-tonks, rent parties, and after-hours joints as well as the licensed membership clubs, dance halls, cabarets, and the dances of the black elite. Jook houses emerged during the Reconstruction era and can be viewed as a cultural response to freedom.
In the jook, Hazzard-Gordon explains, an immeasurable amount of core black culture including food, language, community fellowship, mate selection, music, and dance found a sanctuary of expression when no other secular institution flourished among the folk. The jook and its various derivative forms have provided both entertainment and an economic alternative (such as illegal lotteries and numbers) to people excluded from the dominant economy. Dances like the Charleston, shimmy, snake hips, funky butt, twist, and slow drag originated in the jooks; some can be traced back to Africa. Social dancing links black Americans to their African past more strongly than any other aspect of their culture. Citing the significance of dance in the African-American psyche, this study explores the establishments that nurtured ancestral as well as communal links for African-Americans, vividly describing black dances, formal rituals, such as debutante balls, and the influence of black dance on white culture. Katrina Hazzard-Gordon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden, and the founder and director of the Diaspora Dance Theatre and Research Group.

Katrina Hazzard-Gordon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden, and the founder and director of the Diaspora Dance Theatre and Research Group.

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Dancing Under the Lash The Middle Passage The Plantation Environment Bals du Cordon Bleu 2. Shoddy Confines: The Jook Continuum The Great Transition Jook Houses, Honky-Tonks, After-Hours Joints Rent Parties, Chittlin' Struts, Blue Monday Affairs 3. Upper Shadies and Urban Politics Monday Night at the Paradise Ballroom Bells, Buzzers, and Air of Legitimacy Night Clubs, Show Bars, Cabaret Parties Dancin' in the Streets Black Elite Affairs Postscript Notes Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.5.1990
Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 250 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-87722-613-X / 087722613X
ISBN-13 978-0-87722-613-0 / 9780877226130
Zustand Neuware
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