The decolonization of North American culture and the cross-cultural pollination of African dance on American soil

Abstract

This article is part of an ongoing Scientific Initiation research whose objective is to problematize the history of Jazz Dance from a cultural and critical perspective, reviewing and systematizing concepts, the organization processes of this dance manifestation in view of the variations of time, place and intensity. Under a qualitative approach, this is a descriptive research, in which the data were cataloged and organized, through the construction of a historiographical survey in which the period of time that goes from 1526, through the abolition of slavery, is used as a research field. North American culture until the mid-1920s. Being presented here, the elements referring to labor relations and subversion of power from the decolonization of North American culture and some developments in black artistic production during the first half of the twentieth century in the United States United. Demonstrating how all Afro-descendant cultural expression served as resistance and confrontation with the inhuman situation they experienced throughout the period covered in this work.