Jookin' PB: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture Hazzard-Gordon KatrinaPaperback
Jookin' PB: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture Hazzard-Gordon KatrinaPaperback Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook--an…
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Jookin' PB: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture Hazzard-Gordon KatrinaPaperback
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. Like the blues, these secular dance forms and institutions were brought north and urbanized by migrating blacks. 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.
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 In northern cities, some aspects of black dance became integrated into white culture and commercialized.