Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography - Cultural & Regional Biography & Autobiography - Historical African American & Black It all seemed so simple

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Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography - Cultural & Regional Biography & Autobiography - Historical African American & Black It all seemed so simpleNational Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award UNCG Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education Strategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and