Dancing At Halftime

Author : Carol Spindel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814781276
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing at Halftime written by Carol Spindel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A topical discussion of the controversial use of American Indian mascots by college-level and professional sports teams.

Author : Matthew Krystal
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457111594
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian written by Matthew Krystal and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices. Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow, folkloric dance, and dancing sports mascots--the book addresses both the ideational and behavioral dimensions of identity. Each dance is examined as a unique cultural expression in individual chapters, and then all are compared in the conclusion, where striking parallels and important divergences are revealed. Ultimately, Krystal describes how dancers and audiences work to construct and consume satisfying and meaningful identities through dance by either challenging social inequality or reinforcing the present social order. Detailed ethnographic work, thorough case studies, and an insightful narrative voice make Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian a substantial addition to scholarly literature on dance in the Americas. It will be of interest to scholars of Native American studies, social sciences, and performing arts.

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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Author : Ashley Worrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780557514472
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Half-Time Highlights: A Guide to Dancing in the NBA/NFL written by Ashley Worrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting the audition process but feel clueless? This guide to dancing in the NBA/NFL will help you along the journey, teach you the dedication it takes to dance at that level and motivate you to achieve your goals.

Author : Lloyd Reeb
Publisher : Independent Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1626204799
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Halftime for Couples written by Lloyd Reeb and published by Independent Publisher. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET ALIGNED WITH YOUR SPOUSE, PLAN YOUR SECOND HALF TOGETHER Halftime for Couples is a roadmap for creating an intimate adventure together. “Halftime” is the season when couples look back and take stock, look forward and dream—then chart a new course together as a couple. It’s about moving beyond success to pursue significance. With author Lloyd Reeb’s guided reflection in this book, your halftime as a couple can be packed with fun, growth, and deep fulfillment. But living a life of significance always involves risk and sacrifice, and it’s not for the faint of heart. When you face real fears and obstacles on your path of God’s calling, you are drawn closer together. As you look back on those steps of faith, you see where God has worked, allowing you to partner with Him—together. Lloyd Reeb, Founding Partner at the Halftime Institute, has spent more than 10,000 hours helping leaders wrestle with powerful questions, dream beyond their limits, and craft roadmaps to live out those dreams. But—he did it alongside his wife, Linda, supporting her calling too. Out of their experience of journeying together during their own halftime season, Lloyd and Linda Reeb have created a practical guide for couples who want to plan their second half together. “The richest component of a significance-filled ‘second half’ is sharing the journey with those you love. Resist the temptation to head into your second half alone by excluding your spouse. Halftime for Couples is an essential interactive guide for couples who want to finish well together.” —BOB BUFORD, best-selling author of Halftime: From Success to Significance Linda and Lloyd Reeb have been married over thirty years. They enjoy living near Charlotte, North Carolina, and have three grown children. LINDA REEB was a stay-at-home mom and a part-time dental assistant during her first half. After exploring her calling and realizing her passion to encourage moms with young children, she founded MomsMentoring, and today, that is her primary occupation. LLOYD REEB spent his first half as a real estate developer and investor. For over twenty years, Lloyd has taken the halftime message around the world with the Halftime Institute, speaking, leading, and coaching individuals through midlife transition. Lloyd is the author of several books, including From Success to Significance: When the Pursuit of Success Isn’t Enough, The Second Half, and Finally Connected.

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759114145
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Representation in Native America written by Andrew Jolivétte and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. JolivZtte and his co-authors challenge and contest these images, demonstrating how Native representation and identity are at the heart of Native politics and Native activism. In portrayals of a Native Barbie Doll or a racist mascot, disrespect of Native women, misconceptions of mixed race identities, or the commodification of all things 'Indian', the authors reveal how the very existence of Native people continues to be challenged, with harmful repercussions in social and legal policy, not just in popular culture. The authors re-articulate Native history, religion, identity, and oral and literary traditions in ways that allow the true identity and persona of the Native person to be recognized and respected. It is a project that is fundamental to ethnic revitalization and the recognition of indigenous rights in North America. This book is a provocative and essential introduction for students and Native and non-Native people who wish to understand the images and realities of American Indian lifeways in American society.

Author : Danielle Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199779368
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Moves written by Danielle Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as the result of the co-mingling of dance traditions from different cultural and racial backgrounds in the same urban social spaces. The results of these cross-cultural collisions in New York City, as she argues, were far greater than passing dance trends; they in fact laid the foundation for the twentieth century's social dancing practices throughout the United States. By looking at dance as social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of African diasporic peoples -- even as they were excluded from its rewards. A cornerstone in Robinson's argument is the changing role of the dance instructor, which was transformed from the proprietor of a small-scale, local dance school at the end of the nineteenth century to a member of a distinct, self-identified social industry at the beginning of the twentieth. Whereas dance studies has been slow to connect early twentieth century dancing with period racial politics, Modern Moves departs radically from prior scholarship on the topic, and in so doing, revises social and African American dance history of this period. Recognizing the rac(ial)ist beginnings of contemporary American social dancing, it offers a window into the ways that dancing throughout the twentieth century has provided a key means through which diverse groups of people have navigated shifting socio-political relations through their bodily movement. Modern Moves asserts that the social practice of modern dancing, with its perceived black origins, empowered displaced people such as migrants and immigrants to grapple with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of North American modernity. Far more than simple appropriation, the selling and practicing of "black" dances during the 1910s and 1920s reinforced whiteness as the ideal racial status in America through embodied and rhetorical engagements with period black stereotypes.

Author : Christi Jay Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197559271
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Beats written by Christi Jay Wells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance explores the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. It aims to show how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development, but it also investigates the processes through which jazz music came to earn a reputation as a "legitimate" art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of "choreographies of listening," the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. The book's later chapters also critically unpack the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. As musicians and critics sought to secure institutional space for jazz within America's body-averse academic and high-art cultures, an intentional severance from the dancing body proved crucial to jazz's re-positioning as a form of autonomous, elite art. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, this book seeks to advance participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it tells the rich, untold story of jazz as popular dance music, this book also exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to "elevate" expressive forms such as jazz to elite status"--

Author : Jennifer Guiliano
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813565561
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Spectacle written by Jennifer Guiliano and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots. Indian Spectacle explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. Against a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports—where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars—Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives.

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387954709
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing from the Streets of Prague 2 written by Tecumapese Morning Star and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: