A 20 year Critical Examination of Arts Management and Black San Francisco by RAISSA SIMPSON FINANCE YOUR FREEDOM:
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F or years Black scholars have been studying the meaning, cultural impact and social tenacity of Black dance. Despite defensi- ble evidence of Black dance culture’s influ- ence on American society – its function to the identifiable continuity for passing on tradition, both classical and contemporary – these findings can oftentimes go relatively underdiscovered by main- stream dance researchers seeking to establish numer- ical evidence in dance’s economic benefits. Through approaching what extant literature has provided us
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on Black dance, 1 we can begin to conceptualize how to measure the types of economic impact dance as a whole has on American society – Black dance as a type of calculator. Whereas neuroscientist study of dance dates back around the 1990s, Black dance is concerned with issues like the generational wealth gap which results in turnstile access to funding in the nonprofit arts management sphere. 1 Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Afro-American core culture social dance: An examination of four aspects of meaning, Dance Research Journal, 1983 Thomas F. Defrantz, “The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power,” Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory. Ed. Andre Lepecki. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool, Springer, 2003
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