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Choreographing in color : Filipinos, hip-hop, and the cultural politics of euphemism

Title: Choreographing in color : Filipinos, hip-hop, and the cultural politics of euphemism / J. Lorenzo Perillo.
Author: Perillo, J. Lorenzo
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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xviii, 252 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists, choreographers, and organizers, Perillo asserts the importance in shifting attention away from the predominant Philippine neoliberal and U.S. imperialist emphasis on Filipinos as superb mimics, heroic migrants, model minorities, and natural dancers and instead asks: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate the violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop? Employing critical race, feminist, and performance studies, Perillo analyzes the conditions of possibility that gave rise to Filipino dance phenomena across viral, migrant, theatrical, competitive, and diplomatic performance in the Philippines and diaspora. Advocating for serious engagements with the dancing body, Perillo rethinks a staple of Hip-Hop's regulation, the "euphemism," as a mode of social critique for understanding how folks have engaged with both racial histories of colonialism and gendered labor migration. Figures of euphemism-the zombie, hero, robot, and judge-constitute a way of seeing Filipino Hip-Hop as contiguous with a multi-racial repertoire of imperial crossing, thus uncovering the ways Black dance intersects Filipino racialization and reframing the ongoing, contested underdog relationship between Filipinos and U.S. global power"--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Choreographing in color -- Zombies and prisoner rehabilitation -- Heroes and Filipino migrations -- Robots and affirmative choreographies -- Judges and international competitions -- Hip-hop ambassadors and conventions.

Call Number

*MGV 21-3438

ISBN

9780190054274
0190054271
9780190054281
019005428X

LCCN

2020001451

OCLC

1152353031

Author

Perillo, J. Lorenzo, author.

Title

Choreographing in color : Filipinos, hip-hop, and the cultural politics of euphemism / J. Lorenzo Perillo.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

*MGV 21-3438

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