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.