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Front MatterSource: Dance Research Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, Social and Popular Dance (Winter, 2001), pp. 1-6Published by: Congress on Research in DanceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1477799 .
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This issue of Dance Research Journal is dedicated to the memory of
Barbara Barker
(October 31, 1938-January 3, 2002)
pioneering dance historian, devoted teacher and mentor,
and valued friend
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DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL CONGRESS ON RESEARCH IN DANCE 33/2 Winter 2001/02
The Social and Popular Dance Issue
Editor Julie Malnig Co-editors Social Dance Issue Julie Malnig Barbara Cohen-Stratyner Reviews Editor Kate Ramsey CORD Executive Committee Mary E. Edsall (President), Cara Gargano (President-elect), Juanita Suarez (Treasurer), Wendy Oliver (Secretary), Sally Alien Ness (Editorial Board Chair) CORD Board of Directors Karen E. Bond, Barbara Browning, Theresa Buckland, UttaraAsha Coorlawala, Dixie Durr, Martha Eddy, Mary E. Edsall, Jeff Friedman, Cara Gargano, Michael Huxley, Naomi Jackson, Julie Malnig, Raphael Miller, Sally Alien Ness, Wendy Oliver, John Perpener, Deidre Skiar, Juanita Suarez, Tricia Henry Young CORD Editorial Board Sally Alen Ness (Chair), Uttara Asha Coorlawala, Mary E. Edsall (Ex-officio), Janice LaPointe- Crump, Heidi Gilpin, Julie Malnig, Monica Moseley, Kate Ramsey DRJAdvisory Board Sally Banes, Lynn Matluck Brooks, Barbara Browning, Ann Daly, Jane Desmond, Kent De Spain, Mark Franko, David Gere, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Randy Martin, Sally Sommer, Susan W. Stinson, Helen Thomas, Judy Van Zile, Phillip Zarrilli
Copy edting Computer Graphics and Design Barbara Palfy Mandy Harris
Proofreading Graduate Assistant/Editorial Assistant Nadine Covert Cristina uebner, Vanessa Manko
Newsltter Editor Office Administrator Uttara Asha Coorlawala Ginger Carlson
Published twice yearly by the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Dance Research Journal car- ries scholarly articles, book reviews, and reports of scholarly conferences, archives, and other projects of interest in the field. Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and non- members of CORD, and will be accepted at any time. Views expressed in DRJ are the authors' and not necessarily those of the editors, CORD, or CORD officers. Dance Research Journal is edited and produced at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. For all editorial inquiries contact Dr. Julie Malnig, Associate Professor, The Gallatin School, New York University, 715 Broadway, 807D, New York, NY 10003-6806 U.S.A.; tel.: 212-998- 7311; fax: 212-995-4509; e-mail: [email protected]. For submission of book reviews contact incoming book reviews editor Dr. Kate Ramsey, 132 Woodbine Street, Providence, RI 02906 U.SA; tel.: 401-421-3084; e-mail: [email protected].
Membership/subscription information and orders for current or back publications should be directed to CORD, Dept of Dance, State University of New York, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY 14420 U.S.A.; tel.: 716-395-2590.
Special thanks to Dean E. Frances White and The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU for ongoing support of Dance Research Journal. Front cover photos (clockwise): Gary and Diana McDonald, photo by David Mark; Brahams "Bravo" LaFortune, photo by Andrew Eccles; Jose Decamps and Jamie Josephson, photo by David Mark; Barbara Tucker, (counter clockwise: Archie Burnett, Brahams "Bravo" LaFortune, and Willi Ninja) featurd in Sally Sommer's film Check Your Body at the Door, photo by Andrew Eccles.
Back cover photo: Alberta Ranch Boys Playing the Trianon Ballroom, ca. 1945-55; courtesy of Sir Alexander Galt Museum and Archives, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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copyright ? 2001 by the Congress on Research in Dance
all rights reserved ISSN: 0149 7677
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 76-1217
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Dance Research Journal
Congress on Research in Dance 33/2 Winter 2001
CONTENTS
Social and Popular Dance
Introduction 7
Articles The Trianon and On: Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada
Lisa Doolittle 11
From Bharata Natyam to Bop: Jack Cole's "Modem" Jazz Dance Constance Valis Hill 29
Improvisation in African-American Vernacular Dancing Jonathan David Jackson 40
Brownface: Representations of Latin-ness in Dancesport Juliet McMains 54
C'mon to my house: Underground-House Dancing Sally R. Sommer 72
Dancing in the Past, Living in the Present: Nostalgia and Race in Southern California Neo-Swing Dance Culture
Eric Martin Usner 87
Taking Up Space: An Interview with Bio of TATS CRU, Inc. Jennifer Lutz 102
Getting Off: Portrayals of Masculinity in Hip Hop Dance in Film Sara LaBoskey 112
Dialogues: Issues in Social and Vernacular Dance Social Dance: Contexts and Definitions
Barbara Cohen-Stratyner 121
Why Study the Lindy Hop? Terry Monaghan 124
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Reviews Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Thomas DeFrantz 128
Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s by Angela J. Latham
Linda J. Tomko 131
The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 by Nadine George-Graves
Michael Dinwiddie 134
"You Better Work!" Underground Dance Music in New York City by Kai Fikentscher Tim Lawrence 138
Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes by Zoila S. Mendoza
Anita Gonzalez 141
In Memoriam Barbara Barker
Barbara Cohen-Stratyner 144
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