Digging the Africanist presence in American performance: dance and other contexts

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Acknowledgments Introduction Up from Under: The Africanist Presence First Premises of an Africanist Aesthetic Don't Take Away My Picasso: Cultural Borrowing and the Afro-Euro-American Triangle Barefoot and Hot, Sneakered and Cool: Africanist Subtexts in Modern and Postmodern Dance Stripping the Emperor: George Balanchine and the Americanization of Ballet Past Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stage Dance and Theater in a Multicultural Context: Who Stole the Soul, Who Takes the Rap, or Free To Be You and Me? Illustrations References Index