Renegades - Digital Dance Cultures From Dubsmash to Tiktok

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture-
principally music and dance-is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture.

About the author

Trevor Boffone is a Lecturer in the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston and a Spanish teacher at Bellaire High School. His work using Dubsmash and TikTok with his students has been featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, Inside Edition, and Access Hollywood, among numerous national and local media platforms. He is the co-editor of Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater; Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature; Shakespeare and Latinidad; and Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance.

Summary

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture--principally music and dance--is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture.

Additional text

Plenty of books focus on young people's fix on phones, cultural appropriation of Blackness, or hip-hop as music and pedagogy. Renegades tackles all that with a Woah! tagged on. Boffone confronts whiteness, anti-Black sexism, and even COVID19 with his insights about digital dance trends. He bops to beats chosen by Black girls in his Spanish classroom. He calls out the empathy gap limiting their safe, nurturing development as students. He 'mops' with them going viral on DubSmash and TikTok. This collaborative, therapeutic hip-hop intervention will lead White teachers and other readers to exclaim: Keke taught me the Black girl joy that influences the Internet's top hip-hop songs and dance.

Product details

• Authors: Boffone , Trevor Boffone, Trevor (Lecturer in the Women''s Gender & Boffone, Trevor (Lecturer in the Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Boffone
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780197577677
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757767-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Television, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Films, cinema, Gender studies, gender groups, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres