The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop
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Köp båda 2 för 1819 krEngaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date. Filling a lacuna in both Hip Hop and dance studies, the Handbook places p...
Fred Moten, New York University In critically celebrating the immeasurable mass of hip-hop dance, Imani Kai Johnson significantly advances the thought and practice of Blackness as global field and global force. Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers is a beautiful necessity.
Yvonne Daniel, Smith College Professor Imani K. Johnson provides a ringside seat and exceedingly informed analysis in Dark Matter. Her writing is a Hip Hop 'show and prove' performance of meaning and pervasiveness, grounded in contemporary reiterations of Africanist aesthetics within global Black lives.
Imani Kai Johnson is Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. She specializes in African diasporic ritual cultures, global popular culture, and Hip Hop. Dr. Johnson founded and directs of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference Series. She is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, and has published works in Women & Performance and Dance Research Journal.
Preface: "Being There" Introduction: Dark Matter, Breaking Chapter 1. Dark Matter & Diaspora: Cyphers in an Africanist Context Chapter 2: Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography & Outlaw Culture Chapter 3. Badass B-Girls Dancing the Dissonance of a Breaking Sociality Chapter 4. Dancing Global Hip Hop: Negotiating Difference & Tradition Acknowledgements Selected Bibliography Index