List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Editors’ Note
Introduction
Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R. A. Jones, and Wendy Oliver
I Am Jazz
Cory Bowles
Part 1. The Place of Jazz Dance in Twenty-First-Century North America
Chapter 1. An Overview of Jazz Dance in the Twenty-First Century
Melanie George
Chapter 2. Professional Jazz Dance in North America
Wendy Oliver
Chapter 3. Whiteness and the Fractured Jazz Dance Continuum
Lindsay Guarino
Chapter 4. The Morphology of Afro-Kinetic Memory: A Provocative Analysis of Marginalized Jazz Dance
E. Moncell Durden
Part 2. Analyzing Aesthetics
Chapter 5. Africanist Elements in American Jazz Dance
Julie Kerr-Berry
Chapter 6. Jazz Dance Technique, Aesthetics, and Racial Supremacy
Carlos R. A. Jones
Chapter 7. Where’s the Jazz? A Multilayered Approach for Viewing and Discussing Jazz Dance
Lindsay Guarino
Part 3. Choreography and Performance of Jazz Dance
Chapter 8. Must Be the Music
LaTasha Barnes
Chapter 9. Riding Rhythms and Designing Space: Jazz Dance Composition
Carlos R. A. Jones
Chapter 10. Jazz Is a Feeling . . .
Adrienne Hawkins
Chapter 11. A Strange Place to Find Jazz . . .
Kimberley Cooper
Chapter 12. The Duality of the Black Experience as Jazz Language
Pat Taylor
Chapter 13. Performing Gender: Disrupting Performance Norms for Women in Jazz Dance through Gender-Inclusive, Human-Centric Choreography
Brandi Coleman
Chapter 14. Considering Jazz Choreography
Melanie George
Part 4. Teaching Jazz Dance
Chapter 15. Valuing Cultural Context and Style: Strategies for Teaching Traditional Jazz Dance from the Inside Out
Karen W. Hubbard
Chapter 16. Cultivating African Diasporic Ethos and Cultural Values in Contemporary Jazz Dance
Monique Marie Haley
Chapter 17. Jazz Dance Pedagogy: Its Own Thing
Paula J. Peters
Chapter 18. Reframing the Jazz Narrative in the High School Classroom
Jessie Metcalf McCullough
Chapter 19. Countering Cultural Dissonance in a Graduate Jazz Dance Course
Patricia Cohen
Chapter 20. Preparing a Lecture-Demonstration on the History/Styles of Jazz Dance for K–12 Students
Lynnette Young Overby
Chapter 21. To Topple, Not Maintain: Changing Pedagogical Practice in the College Jazz Dance History Course
Karen Clemente
Part 5. The Future of Jazz Dance
Chapter 22. Connective Threads: Jazz Aesthetics, Jazz Music, and the Future of Jazz Dance Studies
Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver
Chapter 23. My Truth, My Self, Our Way Forward
Carlos R. A. Jones
Appendix 1. Jazz Music Glossary
Wendy Oliver, Rubim de Toledo, and Joanne Baker
Appendix 2. Experimenting with Time Signatures
Vicki Adams Willis, Joanne Baker, and Jamie Freeman Cormack
Appendix 3. Music Inspiration
List of Contributors
Index
