Perillo, J. Lorenzo (2013) Theorising Hip-Hop and Street Dance in the Philippines: Blurring the Lines of Genre, Mode and Dimension. International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 9 (1). pp. 69-96. ISSN 1823-6243
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While Hip-hop is recognised as a global musical culture, few studies have examined its practices of choreography. This essay privileges the ways Hip-hop 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. Taken as a whole, these aspects help articulate conventional concerns around studying Hip-hop dance. This explanatory framework, hopefully, clears up more room to move when theorising through and about Hip-hop and promotes the critical study of dance practices in the Philippines with larger implications for contemporary popular music and performance in Asia and beyond.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | dance, dance criticism, diaspora, Hip Hop, street dance |
Depositing User: | Machine Whisperer |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2017 03:37 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2017 05:10 |
URI: | http://philippineperformance-repository.upd.edu.ph/id/eprint/1581 |
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