Dancing at the Crossroads

Hello friends of The Creolization of American Culture! Thought you might be interested in a progress report on the next project, tentatively entitled DANCE REVOLUTIONS: STREET DANCE AND REBELLION IN AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY. Includes material on street dance and music: in the First Great Awakening (Kentucky frontier) c1800; Kingston JA and Bristol ENG; graffiti, whistles, sirens, street cries; Port-au-Prince and NOLA; Shakers & Ghost Dancers; Josephine Baker, Malcolm X as Lindy-hopper, Marx Brothers, Spike Lee's "Bamboozled"; Fugazi, Stonewall Uprising, Chicago/Grant Park '68, Fugazi; tango in Istanbul street protests, Sir Mix-a-Lot with the Seattle Symphony. The first full draft of the MS is *done*--coming in at around 104.5K words--and goes in to the anonymous Readers this week. Hoping for a street date before the end of the year!

New York Christmas Card Vendor, East 14th Street circa 1900. Pedlar had been a viable entry-level job for immigrants on the Lower East Side for a century at least.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, mid 1940s, with Duolian. Iconic.

This is where the soul of man never dies. - Sam Phillips

FZ with Les Paul goldtop, c1970

Old Absinthe House, NOLA, c1930s.

Bo Kaap Afrique du Sud 1942 par la photographe Sud-Africaine Constance Stuart Larrabee 1914-2000

CJS

Mitch & Jimi, probably TV studio, probably early-mid ‘67.

Seems legit.

NOLA Second Line, probably mid-1960s.

Wolf

Aaron Siskind: Savoy Ballroom c1937

Luther Hamilton Photo Collection: Mississippi Cafe 1947

One gentleman genius’s humble tribute to another. Thank you, Dave. Thank you, Mr Toussaint, for your great effort.