Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Katrina Dyonne Thompson

Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

Katrina Dyonne Thompson

256 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Th...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...