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1	Auto/body/graphy and the black dancing body Escobar, Ninoska M'bewe 13 July 2011 (has links) This thesis considers how the Black dancing body constitutes both Black history and dance history by reading the body in Pearl Primus' Hard time blues, The Negro speaks of rivers and Strange fruit as physical auto/biography, or what I shall herein refer to as auto/body/graphy. The Black dancing body, because it is a repository of the Black experience, actively engages in the act of self-naming, self-shaping, and self-recognition. As such, it may be considered an auto/body/graphy that is situated in Black history, an instrument through which histories of origin and migration, struggle against oppression and colonialization, and the forging of identities and self-definition are inscribed and communicated. This thesis examines Primus' early choreographies as a discourse through which to consider the impact of Black cultural consciousness and the emergence of a Black aesthetic and Black corpo-reality in dance and theatre on the development of American modern dance before mid-century, and upon later choreographers who followed Primus. / text Pearl Primus Hard times blues The Negro speaks of rivers Strange fruit Dance Blacks
2	Art as Activism: The Lives and Art of Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone Campbell, Katy M. January 2021 (has links) No description available. African American Studies Black History Gender History Modern History Music American History Billie Holiday Lena Horne Nina Simone Civil Rights Movement Harlem Renaissance Black Power Activism Art Paul Robeson Strange Fruit Mississippi Goddam Cabin in the Sky WEB DuBois Criteria of Negro Art Cotton Club Count Basie Communism

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Auto/body/graphy and the black dancing body

Art as Activism: The Lives and Art of Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone