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Name and location of repository
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Collectie
Titel
Jill Flanders-Crosby papers
Datum(s)
- 1990s-2000s (Vervaardig)
Omvang
6 Boxes
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
Jill Flanders Crosby holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Since beginning her research in Ghana in 1991, she has focused on ritual dance forms in Ghana, Togo, and Cuba, conducting fieldwork from 1997 to 2018. Her extensive research inspired a collaborative art installation that debuted in Havana, Cuba, in December 2010 and was later exhibited in Ghana in 2013 and San Francisco in 2014.
Flanders Crosby has presented her findings on Ghanaian and Cuban dance traditions at numerous scholarly conferences, including those of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the African Studies Association, the Congress on Research in Dance, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her research has been published in Making Caribbean Dance (University Press of Florida) and journals such as Southern Quarterly, Material Religion, Etnofoor, Revista Catauro, as well as on the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography website. Additionally, she has explored the origins of jazz dance, contributing to the edited volume Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches (University Press of Florida).
Currently, Flanders Crosby is conducting oral history research among dancers, choreographers, and composers in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific, focusing on their creative and cultural expressions in dance.
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Bereik en inhoud
The Jill Flanders-Crosby papers contain photographs, cassettes, DV tapes, and DVDs related to Flanders-Crosby's fieldwork related to Afro-Cuban religious dance practices.
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Conditions of access and use elements
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require the written permission of the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Jill Flanders-Crosby papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- Engels
- Spaans
Scripts of the material
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Toegangen
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Geschiedenis beheer
Acquisition from Jill Flanders-Crosby, May 2021.
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Notes element
Algemene aantekening
A copy of Secrets Under the Skin, a field work project conducted by Dr. Jill Flanders-Crosby, has been archived at https://archive-it.org/collections/16783.
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Minimal collection-level record created by Juan A. Villanueva, November 2024.