Theorising Hip-hop Dance In The Philippines: Blurring The Lines Of Genre, Mode And Dimension
While Hip-hop is recognised as a global musical culture, few studies have examined its practices of choreography. This essay privileges the ways Hiphop dancers in Manila theorise their practices through four main aspects— genre, mode, dimension and conflict—in order to draw attention to the princ...
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/40650/ http://eprints.usm.my/40650/1/Art3-Perillo.pdf |
| Summary: | While Hip-hop is recognised as a global musical culture, few studies have
examined its practices of choreography. This essay privileges the ways Hiphop dancers in Manila theorise their practices through four main aspects—
genre, mode, dimension and conflict—in order to draw attention to the
principles of meaning-making in contemporary Hip-hop performance. This
article suggests that a dance-based system of knowledge is helpful to our
understanding of music and performance in Asia and the Pacific because it
fleshes out internal discourses of Hip-hop and promotes a mindfulness
regarding assumptions around the performing body. |
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