... and belonging characterize these interactions, as representations, ways of knowing, and competing claims to those ways of knowing are marshalled and collide. What does the ummah mean in a deterritorialized world? Will local ways of knowing be subsumed by universalizing canons, or will the vernacular take...

...-opted and asserted ownership over jazz; Euro-American ideals and aesthetics became the lens for viewing and placing value on American jazz dance, thus marginalizing African American vernacular dance and privileging codification. The author asserts that jazz dance will not be fully valued or understood...

...This dynamic chapter explores the creative and educational processes within African American vernacular dance social, competitive, and performative spaces. It reflects on the author’s observations and experiences receiving and serving the continuum of embodied knowledge, generational transference...

...In this essay, Boston choreographer Adrienne Hawkins discusses her White-centric education as a Black woman, and the impact it had on her as a dancer and choreographer. Her study with Daniel Nagrin introduced her to vernacular jazz dance, which became important in her work. Hawkins describes her...

... is disrupted. However, once we recognize the relationships between traditional African cultural dances and African-American vernacular dance, as well as the influence on American social, popular, and theatrical dance, the continuum is established. Whether via appropriation or blending, jazz dance evolved...

... movement Black Dance African-derived dance Vernacular and concert dance American racism Halifu in Swahili means the independent, rebellious one in the family. My mother tells me I was a headstrong child from the beginning. So, when the playwright/poet Ntozake Shange, a friend I met...

...This book is a history of vernacular experiences of the 1950s and 1960s in Egypt. It focuses on schooling, conflict, and spirituality and discusses the political and cultural legacy of the Nasser years in today’s Egypt. At the same time, Mériam Belli reflects on the transformations brought about...

...The vernacular architecture of the Seminole Tribe of Florida has largely been given short shrift by architectural historians who tend to celebrate brick-and-mortar construction able to last hundreds of years. Traditional Seminole chickee construction emphasizes sustainable building techniques...

... jazz dance, concert jazz dance, contemporary jazz dance, Latin jazz dance, lyrical jazz dance, pop jazz dance, West-coast jazz dance, vernacular jazz dance, hip-hop dance, funk, and street jazz dance. Styles are grouped in a way that suggests shared roots and aesthetic principals. Readers...

...The manifold varieties of jazz dance have always dominated dance in mainstream American cinema. Given jazz dance’s African roots and its many manifestations in the African-American vernacular, it is not surprising that its use in film almost always implicates issues of race and racism. This article...

... culture and historical narratives. However, the author notes that education and archaeology are also spaces for agency and cultural production, and that resistance and vernacular heritage within rural Kriol communities are another primary focus of this book. British Honduras Heritage Memory Nohmul...

...Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Icelanders produced as rich, varied, and extensive a vernacular literature as was produced anywhere in medieval Europe. That literature has been central to Icelandic cultural identity. It has also played a prominent...

... Machado ´Uthman Taha Sa´ad Al Limby Celebrations Evacuation Day History making Limby Spring festival banning of Port Said Resistance popular Bakhtin Mikhail Cultural productions Egyptian vernacular politics agencies historical perceptions through 1950s–1960s history Halbwachs Maurice...

..., they have not vanished entirely from the landscape. The archaeological footprints of these humble homes can be traced in the outlines of piled stone foundations, charcoal deposits, and scattered domestic artifacts. Furthermore, the style slowly transitioned into a vernacular form lasting post-emancipation...

...This book focuses on the advent of hybrid mythography in the Middle Ages as a form of commentary in vernacular poetry and, alternatively, as restyled and reformatted Latin prose commentary that reflects allegorical authorial self-projection. The complexity of mythography leads to the compilation...

.... Their use of material culture to convey their group affiliations was evident in a number of ways. For example, those residents employed vernacular architecture traditions in building their houses that included techniques and styles that communicated their shared heritage. Fennell examines a case study...

...What connects African-American concert dance and jazz dance? On the one hand, both forms derive from the same root: African vernacular dance. It is easy to identify elements of African aesthetics in both genres. John Perpener contends that African-American concert dance was created to “effect socio...

... to jazz dance. It is more specifically called either “street jazz” or “club jazz,” and was inspired by the rhythm tap and vernacular dance that the dancers saw in the musical films of the 1930s through 1950s. The author studied dancers at the Dingwalls club in northern London and noted that their movement...

..., and social hierarchies, they also challenge them, resist state institutions and foreigners, advocate for their communities, and engage in vernacular heritage practices. African and Maya History project AMH Belizean heritage Cultural knowledge Education Globalization Period Globalization Intangible...