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Books on the Legacy of Black Dance

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A Broke Dancer's Guide to Success, Kayla Harley

A History of African American Theatre, Errol Hill & James Vernon Hatch

A Touch of Innocence: Memoirs of Childhood, Katherine Dunham

African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, John O. Perpener

African-American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader, Harry J. Elam & David Krasner

Alvin Ailey, Andrea Pinkney & Brian Pinkney

Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance, Jennifer Dunning

America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk, Megan Pugh

Black Choreographers Moving: A National Dialogue, Halifu Osumare & Julinda

Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, B

Cabin in the Sky: A Musical Fantasy (DVD), Lynn Root, Vernon Duke & John Latouche

Dance in Hispanic Cultures, Vol. 3, Daniel Lewis

Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890–1920, Linda J. Tomko

Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir, Halifu Osumare

Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, Thomas DeFrantz

Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, Thomas DeFrantz

Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography, Judith Jamison & Howard Kaplan

Dancing the Black Question: The Phoenix Dance Company Phenomenon, Christy Adair

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Fighting for Honor: History of African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World, T.J. Desch Obi

Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, Robert Farris Thompson

Glory: A Life Among Legends, Dr. Glory Van Scott

Island Possessed, Katherine Dunham

Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance, Marshall & Jean Stearns

Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon

Journey to Accompong, Katherine Dunham

Kaiso!: Writings By and About Katherine Dunham, Katherine Dunham & VèVè A. Clark

Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life, Joyce Aschenbrenner

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Misty Copeland

Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance, Melanye White Dixon

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey, Lesa Cline-Ransome & James E. Ransome

Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins, Yael Tamar Lewin

No Longer an Oral Tradition: My Journey Through Dance/Percussion Notation, Doris Green

No Surrender! No Retreat!: African American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theatre, Glenda Eloise Gill

Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism, Kimberly W. Benston

Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895–1910, David Krasner

Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey, with A. Peter Bailey

Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, Jacqui Malone

Stomping the Blues, Albert Murray

Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Farris Thompson

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History, Constance Valis Hill

The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves, Halifu Osumare

The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool, Brenda Dixon Gottschild

The Black Tradition in American Dance, Richard A. Long & Joe Nash

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, Nadine George-Graves

The Spirit Moves: African-American Dance History, Savoy Style (video), Mura Dehn

The Traveling Dancer, Kayla Harley

Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Nadine George-Graves