DANC 0806 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, Junkanoo, Neurasthenia
11 Jan 2017
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Gater open land in a market areas set booths and stalls to sell food and other goods and dance together: pinkster in its later years also featured sideshows with rop dances, circus riding, and wild animals, characteristics: Congo square- new orleans: every sunday afternoons, dance in a public square, express treasured african custom and tradition, white would go watch and love and hate. Dance: polyrhythms, hand clapping instead of drumming, move in/out of circle/line. Original/improvised steps: surround by big circle of community members. Music with banjo, drum, makeshift instruments/ or patting or clapping: feet- own percussion. Important drums were bnned 1739 sonto river slave rebellion. Combination with european jigs/american styles: juba, buck dancers, flat booting/ applichian clogging, buck dancing - tap dance. White audiences dressed up like blacks imitated black culture: love and theft. Breakout: term for jonkonnu main segment which features solo dancing.
