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Zusatztext ...Offers an original perspective on contemporary hip-hop theatre. Informationen zum Autor Felicia McCarren is Professor of French and Italian at Tulane University and author of Dance Pathologies; Performance, Poetics, Medicine (1998) and Dancing Machines; Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2003) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction: "French?": Circulation, Immigration and Assimilation Part I: Politics and poetics Chapter 1: Hop Hop Citizens: politics, culture and performance Chapter 2: Hip Hop Dance "speaks" French: droit de citer Chapter 3: Hip Hop as post-colonial representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust Part II: Technology and techniques Chapter 4: Dancing In and Out of the Box: Frank II Louise's Drop It!(2000) and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon (1999) Chapter 5: Breaking history: Helène Cixous' L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara (2007) Chapter 6: Techniques: French urban dance in intellectual context Conclusion
