I have pleasure in announcing the publishing date for this groundbreaking new book.
The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-hip-hop-dance-studies-9780190247867?cc=ca&lang=en&
Engaging 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 practitioners' voices at the forefront and in dialogue with theoretical insights, rooted in critical race theory, anticolonialism, intersectional feminism, and more. Volume editors Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson have included influential dancers and scholars from around the world: from B-Boys Ken Swift, YNOT, and Storm, to practitioners of locking, waacking and House dance styles such as E. Moncell Durden, Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu, Fly Lady Di, and Leah McFly, and innovative academic work on Hip Hop dance by the most prominent researchers in the field. Throughout the Handbook contributors address individual and social histories of dance, Afrodiasporic and global lineages, the contribution of B-Girls from Honey Rockwell to Rokafella, the "studio-fication" of Hip Hop styles, and moves into theatre, TV, and the digital/social media space.
I am grateful to have my chapter included alongside a host of other practitioners/authors whom I have long admired.
Part IV. Breaking with Convention
23. Negotiating the Metaspace: Hip Hop Dance Artists in the Space of UK Dance/Theatre
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