Katherine Dunham: Bibliography

Publications By and About Katherine Dunham

By Katherine Dunham:

Dances of Haiti. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, 1983.

Les Dances D’ Haiti. Paris: Fasquelle Editeurs, 1957.

“Las Danzas De Haiti,” Acta Anthropologicia, Mexico. 11:4. November, 1947.

A Touch Of Innocence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd Ed. 1994. Originally printed: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1959, 1969.

Island Possessed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd Ed. 1994. Originally printed: New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969.

Journey To Accompong. New York: Henry Holt & Co., Inc., 1946 & Westport, CN: Negro Universities Press, Div. of Greenwood Press, Inc., 1971.

Kasamance. New York: Third Press, Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., 1974.

About Katherine Dunham:

Aschenbrenner, Joyce.  Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life. Champagne-Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Aschenbrenner, Joyce. (with notations of the Dunham Method and Technique by Lavinia Williams), Katherine Dunham: Reflections on the Social and Political Contexts of Afro-American Dance. Research Annual XII, Congress on Research in Dance, 1980.

Beckford, Ruth. Katherine Dunham, A Biography. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1979.

Biemiller, Ruth. Dance: The Story of Katherine Dunham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1969.

Buckle, Richard. Katherine Dunham, Her Dancers, Singers, Musicians. London: Ballet Publications Ltd. Of William Clowes & sons, Ltd., & Beccles, 1948.

Clark, VéVé, and Sara Johnson. KAISO!, Writings by and about Katherine Dunham. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2005. (Features two chapters of Miss Dunham’s last manuscript about the Dunham company: Minefields.)

Clark, VéVé, and Margaret B. Wilkerson, eds., KAISO!, Katherine Dunham, An Anthology of Writings. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Social Change, CCEW Women's Center, 1978.

Clark, VèVè. “Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance, 1938-87. In Geneviève Fabre & Robert O’Meally, History & Memory in African American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Das, Joanna Dee. Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Haskins, James. Katherine Dunham. New York: Coward, McMann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1982.

Harnan, Terry. African Rhythm, American Dance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1974.

Osumare, Halifu. “Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist,” in Sentient Performativities of Embodiment: Thinking alongside the Human, Lynette Hunter, Elisabeth Krimmer, and Peter Lichtenfels, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016, 297-314.

Osumare, Halifu. “Dancing the Black Atlantic: Katherine Dunham’sResearch-to-Performance Model,” “Dance the Americas” a special issue of Ameriquest 7.2 (2010) http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ojs/index.php/ameriquests/issue/view/10

Rose, Albirda. Dunham Technique: A Way of Life. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1990.