Shea Murphy, Jacqueline, 1964-

The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories / Jacqueline Shea Murphy. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Have they a right? : nineteenth-century Indian dance practices and federal policy -- Theatricalizing dancing and policing authenticity -- Antidance rhetoric and American Indian arts in the 1920s -- Authentic themes : modern dancers and American Indians in the 1920s and 1930s -- Her point of view : Martha Graham and absent Indians -- Held in reserve : Jose Limon, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian dance in the 1950s -- The emergence of a visible Native American stage dance -- Aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance at the end of the twentieth century -- We're dancing : indigenous stage dance in the twenty-first century.

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Modern dance--History--United States--20th century.
Indian dance--History--United States--20th century.

GV1783 / .S46 2007

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