The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories

by Jacqueline Shea Murphy

Book Overview

During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.

Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647763
• ISBN13: 9780816647767
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"