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Song
& Dance
Each of the Song & Dance sections presents a glimpse into
the inter-connections of popular song and dance with the available
technologies of sound recording and playback.
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Modern
Ballroom dancing,
1910-1918, focuses on the integration of Black songwriters and
arrangers into Tin Pan Alley through ballroom dance. Dance teams,
such as Irene and Vernon Castle, songwriters and record companies
combined their efforts to promote One-Steps, Fox Trots and Tangos
as suitable for modern life through printed music and dance instruction
manuals.
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Shango (choregraphy:Katharine Dunham) Photograph
by Roger Wood showing Tommy Gomez and members of the Dunham Troupe,
1948
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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African
research and influence
This section focuses on the work of anthropologist/choreographers,
such as Katharine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Jean-Léon Destiné,
Charles Moore and Chuck Davis. They pursued research about the
rhythms, instrumentations and movements of the African diaspora
and West African and Afro-Caribbean cultures and presented it
to dance audiences.
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Painting of dancer and Musicians playing hand-held
percussive instruments, Unidentified artist from Thanjaur, South
India, ca. 1800
Jerome Robbins Dance Divison
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Diaspora
cultures and song
This painting of musicians and dancers represents performers in
Tanjore [Thanjaur], a trading center in the South Indian Peninsula.
The paintings were popular in the early 1800s, primarily for export
to England, which controlled the South Indian area. In the 1800s,
many immigrants from the area went to the south Caribbean. Their
descendents developed indi-pop and chutney music, now popular
in the Caribbean, London and New York.
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