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French moves : the cultural politics of le hip hop
- Title
- French moves : the cultural politics of le hip hop / Felicia McCarren.
- Author
- McCarren, Felicia M.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
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Details
- Description
- xxxviii, 202 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book shows how le hip hop reflects a republic of culture rather than a culture industry; a minority identity politics that takes shape as a movement poetics or figural language; and the public valorization of dance as a technique, meriting unemployment compensation and understood as a high-tech knowledge practice.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in dance theory
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in dance theory.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-196) and index.
- Contents
- Part One. Politics and Poetics: 1. Hip Hop Citizens: Politics, Culture, and Performance; 2. Hip Hop "Speaks" French: Droit de Citer; 3. Hip Hop as Postcolonial Representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust -- Part Two. Techniques and Technologies: 4. Dancing in and out of the Box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon; 5. Breaking History: Hélène Cixous' Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara; 6. Techniques: French Urban Dance in Intellectual Context.
- Call Number
- *MGS (French) 20-963
- ISBN
- 9780199939954
- 0199939950
- 9780199939978
- 0199939977
- LCCN
- 2012034147
- 40022471604
- OCLC
- 853663329
- Author
- McCarren, Felicia M.
- Title
- French moves : the cultural politics of le hip hop / Felicia McCarren.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford studies in dance theoryOxford studies in dance theory.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-196) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022471604
- Research Call Number
- *MGS (French) 20-963