Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

by KatrinaHazzard-Gordon (Author)

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  1990

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  Offers an analysis of the development of the jook, an underground cultural institution created by the black working class with other dance arenas in African-American culture. Presenting the effects of African slaves' middle passage experience on their traditional dances, this work traces the unique dance culture that developed in the rural South.