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This collection includes a broad array of materials including photographs, postcards, advertisements, and ephemera, all relating to the local history of Nyack and surrounding areas
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
"Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook―an underground cultural institution created by the black working class―together with other dance arenas in African-American culture. Beginning with the effects of African slaves’ middle passage experience on their traditional dances, she traces the unique and virtually autonomous dance culture that developed in the rural South. Like the blues, these secular dance...