Rooted Jazz Dance - 9780813080765

Rooted Jazz DanceAfricanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century\nAuthor(s): Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R.A. Jones, Wendy Oliver\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813080765, 978-0813080765\nSynopsis\nNational Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education\n\nStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice \n\nAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the tw.