Blues interview with dancer, Damon Stone in 2021

Blues dance native and international educator Damon Stone on close embrace, code-switching, idiom styles and more. In his teens, Damon danced an early form of hip hop called West Coast Funk. Damon bridges cultural divides, educating guests of black culture on blues dance values, history and aesthetics. Interview Pt. 3 was origninally recorded by The Blues Room for a Zoom audience. AUDIO FILE AVAILABLE ON THE DOI or View /listen to the recordings in context online: decodenoir.org of 2021 these recordings have been curated to form a (prototype) online gallery of African Diaspora social dance culture and lineage, presenting ethnographic interviews of ‘native’ dance culture educators on DecodeNoir. The author recorded these interviews for her Ethnochoreology Masters Arts Practice thesis at the University of Limerick in 2021 (remote during COVID – living in France). The interviewees gave informed consent to recording and archival storage and diffusion. Originally uploaded and linked from the author’s personal Google drive in 2021, this Nakala upload is an archival upgrade. Research Europe publication criteria and securing the recordings in an affordable (free) and safe server are the main benefits of moving to Nakala from G-drive. DECODENOIR.ORG audio now citable in Nakala makes data more accessible to the academics, dance communities and the general public who are the intended audience. These recordings inform and underpin ongoing PhD research and theory by the author at University of Toulouse in cotutelle with University College Cork.