Katherine Dunham A Biography by Beckford, Ruth - 1979

New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0824768280 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a red ink stamped previous business name and address on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has some light toning / yellowing to the very edges of the dust jacket. "At the height of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, Dunham was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America and was widely popular in the United States. The Washington Post called her "dancer Katherine the Great". For almost 30 years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported American black dance troupe at that time. Over her long career, she choreographed more than ninety individual dances. Dunham was an innovator in African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of dance anthropology, or ethnochoreology. She also developed the Dunham Technique, a method of movement to support her dance works." (from Wikipedia) .