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Additional authors

1. Sommer, Sally R.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) +

Summary

1. Side A (ca. 45 min.). Jawole Willa Jo Zollar discusses her first experience in dance; segregation; studying with Joseph Stevenson; performing in floor shows; more on her childhood and her love of creating dances; cultural and class issues while growing up; her involvement in social dancing and the relationship of social dancing to jazz dancing; the relationship between traditional jazz dance and the styles performed on Broadway.
2. Side B (ca. 45 min.). Jawole Willa Jo Zollar speaks about returning to college as a dance major; dancing with Milton Myer's group Black Exodus; more on the social and political climate she experienced growing up, particularly with respect to race; more on college; including her interest in acting and theatre and her developing ideas in dance; her education and the atmosphere of intellectual inquiry that existed at that time; attending graduate school at Florida State University and getting further involved with radical politics; her growing awareness of and interest in postmodern dance.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Black people > Segregation
2. Jazz dance
3. Dance, Black
4. Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo
5. Audiotapes > Zollar, J
6. Social dancing > United States
7. Segregation
8. Race > Social aspects
9. Political participation

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2387

Note

1. Interview with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar conducted by Sally R. Sommer on March 2, 2002.
2. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2387.

Access (note)

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York the Arts, 2001-2002.

Author

1. Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 2002.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York the Arts, 2001-2002.

Local note

1. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2387

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material

Local subject

1. Social dancing -- United States.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Zollar, J.

Added author

1. Sommer, Sally R. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2387 [sound cassette]
2. *MGZMT 3-2387 [transcript]