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Additional authors

1. Horosko, Marian.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (28 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

1. Miss Flowers discusses her own background; American black dance forms and their influence on dance in America; the Bamboula which was transplanted from Africa to New Orleans; Ring-shout, a religious dance; and voodoo dancing in New Orleans. A recording of vocal music for a Ring-shout is played. Miss Flowers then discusses the Cakewalk. The finale from Gottschalk's Cakewalk, used by Ruthanna Boris for her ballet Cakewalk, is played. Then follows a discussion of the African-American origins of jazz, jazz's influence on dance and on music, current distortions of jazz dancing.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
2. Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.

Uniform title

1. Profiles (Radio program)

Subject

1. Cakewalk (Choreographic work : Boris)
2. Cakewalk (Dance)
3. Jazz
4. Jazz dance
5. African American dance
6. Ring-shout
7. Bamboula (Dance)
8. Dance, Black > United States
9. Dance, Black > Louisiana > New Orleans

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-25

Note

1. Host: Marian Horosko. Recorded in 1963 and broadcast by radio station WNCN, New York, on its series, Profiles.

Author

1. Flowers, Katherine. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Katherine Flowers [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1963.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTO 5-25; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, dual track.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-25; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance,

Local subject

1. Voodoo dancing.
2. Audiotapes -- Flowers, K.

Added author

1. Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Added title

1. Profiles (Radio program)

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-25