Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award

UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education

An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary j...