... dance is an important celebratory element in every public ceremony, but in colonies this kind of ritual was severally forbidden because it was judged sinful by white people. The anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston in her Characteristics of Negro Expression discusses features of Negro dance, saying angularity is one of the most evident manifestations of black culture and dance; everything they touch becomes angular ... anything threatening to deprive them of their natural freedom. Black people dance with the entire body, also the face changes in accord to a particular movement. Dance is, a...

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