The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Fogarty |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019024786X |
"Featuring contributions from internationally recognized Hip Hop dancers, advocates, and scholars of various Hip Hop or streetdance practices, the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies is the first collection devoted exclusively to the dances that fall under the rubric of Hip Hop. Each of its five sections explore different key themes relevant to streetdance: legacies and traditions, Hip Hop methodologies, the politics of identity, institutionalization, Hip Hop (dance) theatre, and issues of health, injury, and rehabilitation. This compendium of topics, approaches, theoretical influences, histories, and perspectives demonstrate the futures of a field in formation. It adds new resources to research in dance and Hip Hop studies, contributing to ongoing debates within Hip Hop dance communities globally"--
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Blanco Borelli |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199897824 |
This text offers new ways of understanding dance on the popular screen in new scholarly arguments drawn from dance studies, performance studies, and film and media studies. Through these arguments, it demonstrates how this dance in popular film, television, and online videos can be read and considered through the different bodies and choreographies being shown.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Nadine George-Graves |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1056 |
Release | 2015-07-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190273275 |
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition PDF eBook |
Author | Sherril Dodds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190639083 |
This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers
Title | Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers PDF eBook |
Author | Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-10-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0190856696 |
The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations--evident in expressive qualities like call and response, the aural kinesthetic, the imperative to be original, and more--are essential to cyphering's enduring presence on the global stage. What can cyphers activate beyond the spectacle? What lessons do cyphers offer about moving through and navigating the social world? And what possibilities for the future do they animate? With an interdisciplinary reach and a riff on physics, author Imani Kai Johnson centers the voices of practitioners in a study of breaking events in cities across the US, Canada, and parts of Europe. Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: the Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop draws on over a decade of research and provides a detailed look into the vitality of Africanist aesthetics and the epistemological possibilities of the ritual circle.
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Sumanth Gopinath |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0195375726 |
The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. At once a marketing term, a common mode of everyday-life performance, and an instigator of experimental aesthetics, "mobile music" opens up a space for studying the momentous transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and experience of music and sound that took place between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. Taken together, the two volumes cover a large swath of the world-the US, the UK, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, France, China, Jamaica, Iraq, the Philippines, India, Sweden-and a similarly broad array of the musical and nonmusical sounds suffusing the soundscapes of mobility. Volume 1 provides an introduction to the study of mobile music through the examination of its devices, markets, and theories. Conceptualizing a long history of mobile music extending from the late nineteenth century to the present, the volume focuses on the conjunction of human mobility and forms of sound production and reproduction. The volume's chapters investigate the MP3, copyright law and digital downloading, music and cloud computing, the iPod, the transistor radio, the automated call center, sound and text messaging, the mobile phone, the militarization of iPod usage, the cochlear implant, the portable sound recorder, listening practices of schoolchildren and teenagers, the ringtone, mobile music in the urban soundscape, the boombox, mobile music marketing in Mexico and Brazil, music piracy in India, and online radio in Japan and the US.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Nadine George-Graves |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks |
Pages | 1057 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199917493 |
This handbook brings together genres, aesthetics, cultural practices and historical movements that provide insight into humanist concerns at the crossroads of dance and theatre, broadening the horizons of scholarship in the performing arts and moving the fields closer together.