Argentina

Assunçao, Fernando. El tango y sus circunstancias. Buenos Aires: Ateneo, 1984.

Castillo, Cátulo. Danzas Argentinas. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Penser, 1947.

Castro, Donald S. The Argentine Tango as Social History: 1880-1955. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1991.

Chinarro, Andrés. El tango y su rebeldia. Buenos Aires: Continental, 1965.

Goertzen C, Azzi MS. "Globalization and the Tango," Yearbook for Traditional Music, 31 (1999): 67-76.

Matamoro, Blas. Historia del tango. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor, 1971.

Savigliano, Marta E. Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. Boulder, San Francisco, & Oxford: Westview Press, 1995.

Brazil

Almeida, Bira. Capoiera, A Brazilian Art Form. Palo Alto: Sun Wave, 1981.

Andrade MD, Canton K. "Overview of Dance Research in Brazil," Dance Research Journal, 28: 2 (Fall 1996): 114-122.

Browning, Barbara. Samba : Resistance in Motion. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Dossar, Kenneth. "Capoeira Angola: Dancing between Two Worlds," Afro-Hispanic Review, 11.1-33 (1992): 5-10.

Holloway, Thomas H. "'A Healthy Terror': Police Repression of Capoeiras in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro," Hispanic American Historical Review, 69 (1989): 643.

Kubik, Gerhard. "Angolan Traits in Black Music, Games and Dances of Brazil: A Study of African Cultural Retentions Overseas," Estudos de Antropologia Cultural 10 (Lisbon, 1979): 7-55.

Lewis, John Lowell. Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Moura, Jair. "Capoeiragem -- Arte e malandragem," Cadernos de Cultura 2 (Salvador, 1980): 15-16.

Rosa, Marco Camarotti. "Animation, Affirmation, Anarchy: Folk Performance in Brazil," New Theatre Quarterly. 14:2:54 (May 1998): 159-181.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Capoeira. New York: The Capoeira Foundation, 1988.

Van Collie, Shimon. "Class Actions: Brazil's Deceptive Dance," Dance Teacher (Now), 21:7 (Sept. 1999): 89-92.

Chile

Urrutia Blondel, Jorge. Danzas rituales en las festividades de San Pedro de Atacama .

Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Investigaciones Musicales, Facultad de Ciencias y Artes, 1968.

Cuba

Daniel, Yvonne. Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Guerra, Ramiro. Teatralización del folklore, y otros ensayos. La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1989.

Moore, Robin. "Poetic, Visual and Symphonic Interpretations of the Cuban Rumba: Toward a Model of Integrative Studies," Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interartistic Inquiry, Vol. 4 (1998): 93-112.

Guatemala

Brisset, D. "The Survival of the Dance of the Conquest in Guatemala," Revista de Indias, 55 (Jan-April 1995): 203-221. (Spanish)

Garcia Escobar, CR. "The Traditional Flying-Pole Dance in Guatemala," Folklore Americano, 49 (Jan-Jun 1990): 181-193. (Spanish)

_______. "Notes on the Folk-Dance of the Giants in Guatemala," Folklore Americano, 43 (Jan-Jun 1987): 43-53. (Spanish)

Hoepker, Thomas. Return of the Maya: Guatemala - A Tale of Survival. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

Guyana

Gibson, Kean, Director & Producer. A Celebration of Life: Dances of the African-Guyanese. [videorecording]

Haiti

Barad, E. "Haiti Dances to a Different Drummer: A Country in Turmoil Turns to its Ancient Folk Religion, With Rich Results for Dance," Dance Magazine, 68: 8 (August 1994): 38-41.

Burroughs, Joan Hamby. "Haitian Ceremonial Dance on the Concert Stage: The Contextual Transference and Transformation of Yanvalou" (Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1995)

Daniel, Yvonne. "Tourism Dance Performances: Authenticity and Creativity," Annals of Tourism Research, 23: 4 (October 1996): 780-797.

Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. New York: Dell, 1970; reprint New Paltz, N.Y.: Documentext, McPherson, 1983.

Dunham, Katherine. Dances of Haiti. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California Los Angeles, 1983.

Dunham, Katherine. Island Possessed. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Gillis, Verna and Gail Pellet. Rara [Haitian Rara, videorecording].

Honorat, Michel Lamartinière. Les Danses Folkloriques Haïtiennes. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Imprimerie de l'État, 1955.

Ramsey, Kate. "Vodou and Nationalism: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth Century Haiti," Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Inquiry, 14-15 (1995): 187-216.

Wilken, Lois E. "Music Folklore Among Haitians in New York: Staged Representations and the Negotiation of Identity" (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1991)

Yih, Yuen-Ming David. "Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou: Diversity and Unity in Regional Repetoires" (Ph.D. dissertation , Wesleyan University, 1995; Photocopy: Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Dissertation Services, 1997)

Martinique

Gerstin, Julian Harris. "Traditional Music in a New Social Movement: The Renewal of Bélé in Martinique (French West Indies)" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Berkeley, 1996)

Mexico

Cohen, JH. "Danza de la Pluma: Symbols of Submission and Separation in a Mexican Fiesta," Anthropology Quarterly, 66: 3 (July 1993): 149-158.

Harris, Max. "The Return of Moctezuma: Oaxaca's 'Danza de la Pluma' and New Mexico's 'Danza de los Matachines," The Drama Review. 41:1:153 (Spring 1997): 106-134.

Manzanos, R. "Dance in Contemporary Mexico," Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 549-50 (March — April 1996): 225-236. (Spanish)

Stark, A. and M. Tortajada. "Dance Research in Mexico: Brief History of the Cenidi -Danza with Publication List," Dance Research Journal, 26: 2 (Fall1994): 73-78.

Nicaragua

Scruggs, Thomas Mitchell. "Nicaraguan State Cultural Initiative and 'The Unseen Made Manifest,'" Yearbook for Traditional Music, 30 (1998): 53-73.

Peru

Poole, Deborah. "Accomodation and Resistance in Andean Ritual Dance," Carleton Drama Review, 34:2 (Summer 1990): 98.

Trinidad and Tobago

Riggio, Milla C. "Resistance and Identity: Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago," The Drama Review. 42:3:159 (Fall 1998): 6-23.

Latin/o America

Delgado, Celeste Fraser and José Esteban Muñoz. Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1997.

"Latin Connection: Socio-Political Sensibilities," Eye on Dance[videorecording]. No.190, 1986

"Latin Connection: The Effects of Latin Roots,"Eye on Dance[videorecording]. No. 194, 1986

Fuerra, Ramiro. Caliban Danzante: Procesos Socioculturales de la Danza en America Latina y en el Zona del Caribe. Caracas, Venezuela : Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana : Dirección de la Danza, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura, 1998.

United States

Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. San Francisco: Artists Call, 1984.

Aschenbrenner, Joyce. Katherine Dunham: Reflections on the Social and Political Contexts of Afro-American Dance. New York: Congress on Research and Dance, 1981.

Caponi, Gena Dagel, ed. Signifiyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Cooper, E. "Tamaris and The Federal Dance Theatre 1936-39: Socially Relevant Dance Amidst the Policies and Politics of the New Deal Era," Dance Research Journal . 29: (2) 23-48, Fall 1997.

Clark, Vévé A. "Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham's Choreography, 1938-87," in History and Memory in African-American Culture, ed. Geneviève Fabre and Robert O'Mealy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994): 188-204.

Foster, Susan. Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Garcia, P.J. "’Musica Antigua’: The Social Dance Music Tradition in Northern New Mexico," Latin American Music Review, 16:1 (Spring-Summer 1995): 112-118.

Gonzalez, Anita. "Powwow Dancing and Native Rap: American Indian Dance Patronage and the Politics of Spirituality," Society of Dance History Scholars Conference Proceedings, 21 (18 June 1998-21 June 1998): 227-233.

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance : Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Graff, Ellen. Stepping Left : Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942. Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.

Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina. Jookin' : The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Henry, Rowanne Marie. "Performance and the Los Angeles Uprising: Art as Social Change" (M.A. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993)

Prevots, Naima. Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War. Hanover: NH: Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England, 1998.

Schneeweis, Irene. "Food for the Soul, Fire for the Spirit: Dance and Resistance in American Slavery" (Bachelor's thesis, Claremont, CA: Scripps College, 1995)

Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Tomko, Linda J. Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Additional Sources

Connerton, Paul. How Societies Remember. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Desmond, Jane C., ed. Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1997.

Farrell, Brenda, ed. Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Foster, Susan Leigh, ed. Choreographing History. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995.

_____. Corporealities: Dancing, Knowledge, Culture and Power. London; NY: Routledge, 1996.

Hannah, Judith Lynne. "Dance, Politics and National Identity," Ballett International. 12:2 (Feb. 1989): 21-25.

_____. Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Moves for Changing Times. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1999.

Harlow, Barbara. Resistance Literature. New York: Methuen, 1987.

Martin, Randy. Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Martin, Randy. Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self. New York; Westport Connecticut; London: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1990.

Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Srivastava, S. "Song and Dance? The Performance of Anti-Racist Workshops," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 33:3 (August 1996): 291-315.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Vintage, 1984.

Outside the Americas

Hagemann F. "The Politics of Dance in South Africa," Ballett International, 13: 1(January 1990): 16-19.

Heath, D. "The Politics of Appropriateness and Appropriation: Recontextualizing Women's Dance in Urban Senegal," American Ethnologist, 21:1 (February 1994): 88-103.

Ness, Sally. Body, Movement, and Culture: Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

 

 

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