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French Moves : the cultural politics of le hip hop / Felicia M McCarren

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :Amazon India Series: Oxford studies in dance theoryPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012Description: xxxviii, 202 pages 24cmISBN:
  • 9780199939978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.3 MCC
Contents:
ntroduction -- Politics and poetics : Hip hop citizens: politics, culture and performance ; Hip hop "speaks" French: Droit de Citer ; Hip hop as postcolonial representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust -- Techniques and technologies : Dancing in and out of the box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon ; Breaking history: Hélène Cixous' L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara ; Techniques: French urban dance in intellectual context conclusion.
Summary: This study - the first in English to introduce readers to the French mouv' - analyzes the choreographic development of hip hop into la danse urbaine, touring on national and international stages, as hip hoppeurs move beyond the banlieue, figuring new forms within the mobility brought by new media and global migration.
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ntroduction --
Politics and poetics : Hip hop citizens: politics, culture and performance ; Hip hop "speaks" French: Droit de Citer ; Hip hop as postcolonial representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust --
Techniques and technologies : Dancing in and out of the box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon ; Breaking history: Hélène Cixous' L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara ; Techniques: French urban dance in intellectual context conclusion.

This study - the first in English to introduce readers to the French mouv' - analyzes the choreographic development of hip hop into la danse urbaine, touring on national and international stages, as hip hoppeurs move beyond the banlieue, figuring new forms within the mobility brought by new media and global migration.

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