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Dancing to Rebalance the Universe: African American Secular Dance and Spirituality Katrina Hazzard-Gordon This article intends to briefly outline and discuss some of the spiri tual and philosophical concerns demonstrated in African American secular social dancing. The dancing we concern ourselves with here has historically and contemporarily originated and occurred in Afri can American communities throughout the United States. This strain of black social dance has been nurtured and developed in African American secular cultural institutions, namely, the Jook and its de rivative forms (honky-tonk, after-hours joint, rent party), as well as at dance halls, membership clubs, block dances, house jams, cabarets, and cabaret parties. House jams, with their individualistic nature, have added a dimension of privatized support. The Jook and its deriv ative forms compose the Jook continuum and appear to be related to rural bondsmen's religious activities, just as those activities are di rectly influenced by the African past. Dance, music, food, and alco hol are part of numerous West African sacred ceremonies. Certainly, African captives to America retained their religious customs in their immediate memory and passed some of those customs on to their offspring who used them to create their own meaningful culture. For the
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1993
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