Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power Contributor(s): Roberts, Rosemarie A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819500046 ISBN-13: 9780819500045 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - Popular - Performing Arts | Dance - Regional & Ethnic - Music | Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop |
Dewey: 793.319 |
LCCN: 2021015350 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.08" W x 9.03" (0.70 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Theorizing the experiences of Black and Brown bodies in Hip Hop dance Baring Unbearable Sensualities brings together a bold methodology, an interdisciplinary perspective and a rich array of primary sources to deepen and complicate mainstream understandings of Hip Hop dance, an Afro-diasporic dance form, which have generally reduced the style to a set of techniques divorced from social contexts. Drawing on close observation and interviews with Hip Hop pioneers and their students, Rosemarie A. Roberts proposes that Hip Hop dance is a collective and sentient process of resisting oppressive manifestations of race and power. Roberts argues that the experiences of marginalized Black and Brown bodies materialize in and through Hip Hop dance from the streets of urban centers to contemporary worldwide expressions. A companion web site contains over 30 video clips referenced in the text. |