Religion & Dance

Books:

1987         To Dance Is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication.  Revised 1979 edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1983         The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society. Austin and London: University of Texas Press       

1988         Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press    

1999         Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Movements for Changing Times. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

2006         Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press

---             Nigeria's Ubakala Igbo Dance:  Life, Death, and the Women's War. in preparation (development of The Anthropology of Dance Ritual. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University.  Ann Arbor:  University Microfilms No. 76-28,657)

1981         Urban Dynamics in Black Africa: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Revised 1971 edition.  W. J. Hanna, Co-author. Hawthorne, New York: Aldine

---             Naked Truth: A Christian Right, Strip Clubs and Democracy, in progress

Articles (* = most important):

1965a        "Africa's New Traditional Dance," Ethnomusicology 9:13-21

1965b       "African Dance as Education," Impulse: Dance and Education Now, pp. 48-52

1968         "Heart Beat of Uganda," African Arts 1(3):42-45, 85 (William John Hanna, co-author)

1974         "African Dance: The Continuity of Change," Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 5:164-174

1978         "African Dance: Some Implications for Dance Therapy," American Journal of Dance Therapy 2(1):3-15

1979a        "Toward Semantic Analysis of Movement Behavior: Concepts and Problems," Semiotica 25(1-2):77-110

1979b       "Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance," Current Anthropology (CA treatment) 20(2):313-339

1982         "Is Dance Music?  Resemblances and Relationships," World of Music 24(1):57-71

1983         "From Folk/Sacred to Popular Culture: Syncretism in Nigeria's Ubakala Dance-Plays," Critical Arts (Rhodes University, South Africa) 3(1):44-54

1986         "Movement in African Performance," in Bob Fleshman, ed., Theatrical Movement: A Bibliographical Anthology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, pp. 561-585

1987         "Dance and Religion (Overview)," in Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion.  Vol. 4.  New York: Macmillan Co., pp. 203-212

1988a        "The Representation and Reality of Divinity in Dance," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56(2):501-526

1988b       "Theories and Realities of Emotion in Performance," Polish Art Studies 9:44-66 and Gestos 3(6):27-51

1988c        "Dance and Ritual," Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, special issue, "The Source of Them All," Hilmi Ibrahim, ed., 59(9):40-43

1989a        "Divine Dance," Dance Teacher Now 11(9):29

1989b       "African Dance Frame by Frame:  Revelation of Sex Roles Through Distinctive Feature Analysis and Comments on Field Research, Film, and Notation," Journal of Black Studies 19(4):422-441; abstracted in Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2):13, 1989

1989c        "The Anthropology of Dance," in Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey, eds., Dance: Current Selected Research, I. New York: AMS Press, pp. 219-237

1990         "Anthropological Perspectives for Dance/Movement Therapy," American Journal of Dance Therapy 12(2):115-126

1991         "Advantages of Bharata Natyam," Dance Theatre Journal 9(1):14-15

1992         "Dance," in Helen Meyer, ed., Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. London: Macmillan & New York:  Norton, pp. 315-326

1993         "Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status," in Helen Thomas, ed., Dance, Gender and Culture.  London: Macmillan, pp. 119-127

1995a        "The Power of Dance: Health and Healing," Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 1(4):323-327

1995b       "Dance," in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer, eds., Encyclopedic Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Routledge

1997a        "'Ubakala, We Are Coming':  Searching For Meaning In Dance," in Ester Dagan, ed., The Spirit's Dance In Africa. Montreal: Galerie Amrad, pp. 90-93

1997b       "Problems and Dilemmas in Classifying African Dances," in Ester Dagan, ed., The Spirit's Dance In Africa. Montreal: Galerie Amrad, pp. 210-215

1997c        "Nilimma Devi's Touch of India in America," Dance Teacher Now 19(2):97-100, 102

1998a        "West Africa," Vol. 6:381-385, "Ubakala," Vol. 6:219, "Cultural Context," Vol. 4:362, in Selma Jeanne Cohen, ed., International Encyclopedia of Dance. New York: Oxford University Press

1998b       "Feminist Perspectives on Classical Indian Dance," in David Waterhouse, ed., Dance of India (South Asian Studies Papers). Toronto: University of Toronto Graduate Centre for South Asian Studies, pp. 193-231

1998c        "Undressing the First Amendment and Corsetting the Striptease Dancer," The Drama Review (T158) 42(2):38-69, Summer

1999a        "Dance," in David Levinson, James Ponzetti, and Peter Jorgensen, eds., Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, Vol. 1.  New York: Macmillan, pp. 171-177

1999b       "Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment," in Stuart Reifel, ed., Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT.: Ablex, pp. 37-55

2001a        “Ballet to Exotic Dance,” in Janice LaPointe-Crump and Juliette Crone-Willis, eds., Dancing  in the Millennium: Dance Conference, 2000 Proceedings, Washington, DC, pp. 230-234

2001b       “The Language of Dance,” JOPERD 72(4):40-45, 53

2001c        “Reality and Myth: What Neighbors Say About Exotic Dance Clubs: A Case Study on Charlotte, North Carolina,” Charlotte, NC: Tarheel Entertainment Association, submitted to the City of Charlotte Zoning Board

2002         "Dance Under the Censorship Watch," Journal of Arts Management Law and Society 29(1):1-13

2003a        “Exotic Dance Adult Entertainment: Ethnography Challenges False Mythology,” City and Society 15(2):165-193

2003b      “Aesthetics -- Whose Notions of Appropriateness and Competency, What Are They and How        Do We Know?” World of Music, Special issue: Cross-Cultural Aesthetics, eds., D.A. Avorgbedor and M. P. Baumann, 45(3):29-54

2005         "Dance and Religion (Overview)," in Lindsay Jones, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan Co., pp. 2134-2143

2006          "Marian Chace Foundation Annual Lecture: October 2005. The Power of Dance Discourse: Explanation in Self-Defense," American Journal of Dance Therapy 28(1):3-20  

---         "'Toxic' Strip Clubs: The Intersection of Religion and Law," under publication review