American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination by Black Hawk Hancock

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Lindy Hop ◽  
Racial Imagination

scholarly journals The Racial Imagination of the Lindy Hop from the Historical Standpoint – Comments and Corrections

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Heinilä
Keyword(s):  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Lindy Hop ◽  
Racial Imagination ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

A book review with comments and corrections from the historical standpoint. The review concerns Dr. Black Hawk Hancock's American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press. 2013).

scholarly journals Review of "American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination"

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Wade
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
White Americans ◽  
White People ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Lindy Hop ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

American Allegory uses lindy hop—a social dance invented in the 1920s by black youth in Harlem and now practiced mostly by white dancers—to gain insight into the relationship between black and white Americans and their cultural forms. It aims to contribute to theory about how superordinate groups manipulate culture to maintain power, while also accounting for cultural change and exchange. On page 204 Hancock begins to ask sophisticated theoretical questions but, by then, it is far too late to answer them. While Hancock’s central premise is one to which I am sympathetic—that the community of primarily white people who dance lindy hop today are participating in an appropriation of black culture—he’s never able to move past his premise to a useful contribution.

scholarly journals QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF DANCE THERAPY INFULENCE ON THE PARKINSON’S DISEASE PATIENTS’ LOWER LIMB BIOMECHANICS / ŠOKIŲ ĮTAKA APATINIŲ GALŪNIŲ BIOMECHANIKAI SERGANT PARKINSONO LIGA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 583-586
Author(s):  
Donatas Lukšys ◽  
Julius Griškevičius
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Lower Extremity ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Dance Therapy ◽  
Inertial Sensors ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Lindy Hop ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Parkinson’s disease – progressive neurologic disorder that damages a variety of motor function and reduces the quality of life. Patients with PD are subject to various physical therapy exercises, but recently is applied more often the dance – music therapy. This study aims assessing the therapeutic effect of the modified Lindy Hop dance therapy on lower extremity biomechanics. The experimental study was performed using inertial sensors that registered lower extremity biomechanical parameters during gait. Several spatio-temporal parameters of lower limb were calculated and were found statistically significant between groups, which allows quantifying the influence of dance therapy. Parkinsono liga (PL) – progresuojantis neurologinis sutrikimas, kuris pažeidžia įvairias motorines funkcijas ir sumažina gyvenimo kokybę. Sergant PL, taikomos įvairios fizinių pratimų terapijos, bet paskutiniu metu dažniau taikoma šokių – muzikos – terapija. Eksperimentinio tyrimo metu buvo naudojami inerciniai jutikliai, siekiant registruoti apatinių galūnių biomechaninius parametrus eisenos metu. Šio straipsnio tikslas – įvertinti modifikuotos lindihopo šokių terapijos įtaką apatinių galūnių biomechanikai. Buvo apskaičiuoti apatinių galūnių kinematiniai parametrai ir surasti statistiškai reikšmingi skirtumai tarp grupių ir grupių viduje, kurie leidžia kiekybiškai įvertinti šokių įtaką.

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