French Moves : The Cultural Politics of le hip hop PDF
by Felicia McCarren
Part of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory series
Description
For more than two decades, le hip hop has shown another face of France: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and unequal opportunity and offered a movement vocabulary for the expression of the multicultural difference that challenges the universalist discourse of the Republic. French hip-hoppers subscribe to U.S. black culture to articulate their own difference, but in France hip-hop was championed by a Socialist cultural policy, subsumed into the cultural heritage, and instituted as a pedagogy. France supported hip-hop dance as an art of the suburbs: a multicultural mix of North African, African and Asian forms that circulate with classical and contemporary dance performance. French hip-hop develops into concert dance, becoming a civic discourse and legitimate employment, not through the familiar model of a culture industry, but within a Republic of Culture. It nuances an Anglo-Saxon model of identity politics with a francophone identity poetics and grants its dancers a national profileas artists who develop dance techniques and transmit body-based knowledge. This book, the first in English to introduce readers to the French hip-hop movement, analyzes the choreographic development of hip-hop into ladanse urbaine, touring on national and international stages, as hip-hoppers move beyond thesuburbs, figuring new forms within the mobility brought by new media and global migration.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/04/2013
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- ISBN:9780199939961
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/04/2013
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- ISBN:9780199939961
