Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power Roberts Rosemarie A.
Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power Roberts Rosemarie A. Theorizing the experiences of Black and Brown bodies in Hip Hop DanceBaring Unbearable Sensualities brings…
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Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power Roberts Rosemarie A.
Theorizing the experiences of Black and Brown bodies in Hip Hop DanceBaring Unbearable Sensualities brings together a bold methodology, an interdisciplinary perspective and a rich array of primary sources to deepen and complicate mainstream understandings of Hip Hop Dance, an Afro-diasporic dance form, which have generally reduced the style to a set of techniques divorced from social contexts. Roberts proposes that Hip Hop Dance is a collective and sentient process of resisting oppressive manifestations of race and power. Drawing on close observation and interviews with Hip Hop pioneers and their students, Rosemarie A.
A companion web site contains over 30 video clips referenced in Roberts argues that the experiences of marginalized Black and Brown bodies materialize in and through Hip Hop Dance from the streets of urban centers to contemporary worldwide expressions.