Reviews of Brenda Dixon Gottschild's Digging the Africanist presence in American performance: dance and other contexts (Greenwood Press, 1996); Jacqui Malone's Steppin' on the blues: the visible rhythms of African American dance (University of Illinois Press, 1996); Diana Theodores' First we take Manhattan: four American women and the New York school of dance criticism (Choreography and dance, vol. 10, Harwood Academic Publishers., 1996); and Lynne Conner's Spreading the gospel of the modern dance: newspaper dance criticism in the United States, 1850-1934 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).