Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

by RobertFarrisThompson (Foreword), Brenda Dixon Gottschild (Author), Ananya Chatterjea (Foreword)

Synopsis

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 370
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 03 Feb 2012

ISBN 10: 0230114091
ISBN 13: 9780230114098