British Dance: Black Routes

<p><i>British Dance Black Routes </i>is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists and places them within a broad historical cultural and artistic context.</p><p>Until now discussion of choreography by Black dance practitioners has been dominated by the work of African-American artists facilitated by the civil rights movement. But the work produced by Black British artists has in part been within the context of Britain's colonial legacy.</p><p>Ramsay Burt and Christy Adair bring together an array of leading scholars and practitioners to review the singularity and distinctiveness of the work of British-based dancers who are Black and its relation to the specificity of Black British experiences.</p><p>From sub-Saharan West African and Caribbean dance forms to jazz and hip-hop <i>British Dance Black Routes </i>looks afresh at over five decades of artistic production to provide an unparalleled resource for dance students and scholars.</p><p>Appendix 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>