Dancing Black, Dancing White - Julie Malnig

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Résumé :
Dancing Black, Dancing White offers a new look at a popular phenomenon of the 1950s and 1960s---the televised teen dance program. Through a social and cultural history lens, the book uses these shows to explore rock and roll and how it affected both white and Black teenagers. The crux of the book is twofold: to explore how social and popular dance styles were created and disseminated within the new technology of television and to investigate how the shows both reflected and re-affirmed the racial politics and attitudes of the time....

Biographie:
Julie Malnig is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance and the editor of Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. From 1999 to 2003, Professor Malnig served as editor of Dance Research Journal, an international scholarly publication in dance studies, for which she also served as the Editorial Board Chair from 2003 to 2006. In 2013, she was awarded NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.