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Women’s History Month: Maxine Sullivan!
By dogpossum On 22nd March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In cat blogging, lindy hop and other dances, music, Women in History 2011, Women in History 2012
Geez, these posts are becoming a real trial. I am just too busy. No, actually, I’m just too can’t be bothered to do one of these every day. I just feel as though I’m listing all the big name vocalists of the swing era. Boooring. I had intended to do lots of [...]
Women’s History Month 2012: Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears!
By dogpossum On 1st March, 2012 · 2 Comments · In lindy hop and other dances, research, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Women’s History Month is here again, and this month I’m going to do a different woman jazz musician every day. I’m away in Melbourne for a weekend of actual, real live dancing, so I’ve pre-written this post. Hopefully it publishes properly.
I’ve started by stealing a post from last year because I [...]
Another look at appropriation in dance
By dogpossum On 1st December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In fillums, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, research, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Appropriation, step-stealing, cultural transmission, imitation, impersonation, copying, poaching….
So my last chunky post ‘Historical Recreation’: Fat Suits, Blackface and Dance has kind of hit like a ton of bricks. Cultural transmission in dance – the movement of dance steps and forms and ideas between and within cultures – is pretty much my core [...]
This is me, DJing
By dogpossum On 23rd May, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In curating and collecting, djing, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Fritzi Scheff demonstrating Magnavox for Fifth Liberty Loan in New York City, 1895, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection.
Women’s History Month: Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears!
By dogpossum On 31st March, 2011 · 1 Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, wimminz, Women in History 2011
I’ve been super busy the last couple of days, so I missed yesterday’s inspiring jazz dancer. :(
To make up for that, here’s a whole band full of amazing jazz women.
Women’s History Month: Nina Mae McKinney!
By dogpossum On 29th March, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Embedding is disabled (boo!), but you can see her dancing in this scene from the 1929 film ‘Hallelujah’.
I’ve only just discovered McKinney – and I think I might be in love.
Women’s History Month: Ginger Rogers!
By dogpossum On 28th March, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, wimminz, Women in History 2011
In the 1935 film ‘Roberta’.
Women’s History Month: Dorothy ‘Dot’ Johnson!
By dogpossum On 27th March, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, wimminz, Women in History 2011
A tiny woman who partnered ‘Tiny’ Bunch in the 1938 film ‘Manhattan Merry-go-round’: watch a snippet here, and read more about Johnson at savoystyle.com.
My attention was caught yesterday by a thread on Yehoodi about a blog post by Sarah Breck titled Why women should wear heels. Sarah took down the original post and replaced it with another, but I’ve just had another look and seen that the post is back up again. My post, here, is [...]
Women’s History Month: Mama Lou Parks’ dancers!
By dogpossum On 25th March, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, wimminz, Women in History 2011
All of them, because they are extremely badarse. I’m sorry I don’t have time to check their names just now, I’m just about to go out dancing and DJing myself!
