Product Description: Stepping is a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, speaking, chanting, and drama. Elizabeth C. Fine's stunningly elaborate and vibrant portrayal of the cultural politics of stepping draws on interviews with individuals on college campuses and steppers and stepping coaches from high schools, community groups, churches, and dance organizations...read more

Product Description: The first book to offer a history, theory, and methodology of textmaking from an interdisciplinary perspective, The Folklore Text attacks a critical issue in the study of verbal performance—translating performance style into print.

Product Description: This volume is based on the premise that artistic performance is epistemological, a way of knowing self, culture, and other. The nine essays in this book, based on a broad range of ethnic, racial, and gender groups, share a common interest in exploring how performance reveals, shapes, and sometimes transforms personal and cultural identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)