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The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies Released  

SLIPPAGE is thrilled to announce the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies!

The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies presents an original scholarship that highlights the expansive richness of Black dance practices. Its chapters traverse diverse analytical genres and intellectual approaches, asserting a confident engagement with the African diaspora in motion. Each contribution explores how Black dance both shapes and reflects complex cultural, historical, and political dynamics. The book reveals how Black dance continually transforms creative and social life, leaving few domains untouched. It celebrates the dizzying abundance of Black dance as both a practice and a field of study. 

The volume includes forty—two chapters of original scholarship that cultivate an awareness of dizzying abundance in Black dance practice. They stretch through many genres of analysis and intellectual methods. With unflappable confidence, each chapter tells of differential relations to an African diaspora in motion. There might be few areas of endeavor that Black Dance never touches. The rising connectivities of Black Dance Studies offer moments to savor the source codes of activities that emerge in expressive gestures cast in relation to the ever—presentness of Black Life