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In
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers, Imani Kai Johnson offers a key to thinking about the relationship between Hip Hop aesthetics and Africanism on a global scale, tracking its mutations as Hip Hop has moved from New York to nearly every city and radio station around the globe.
List of contents
- Preface: "Being There"
- Introduction: Dark Matter, Breaking
- Chapter 1. Dark Matter and Diaspora: Cyphers in an Africanist Context
- Chapter 2: Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography and Outlaw Culture
- Chapter 3. Badass B-Girls Dancing the Dissonance of a Breaking Sociality
- Chapter 4. Dancing Global Hip Hop: Negotiating Difference and Tradition
- Acknowledgements
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Imani Kai Johnson is Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. She specializes in African diasporic ritual cultures, global popular culture, and Hip Hop. Dr. Johnson founded and directs of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference Series. She is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, and has published works in Women & Performance and Dance Research Journal.
Summary
In Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers, Imani Kai Johnson offers a key to thinking about the relationship between Hip Hop aesthetics and Africanism on a global scale, tracking its mutations as Hip Hop has moved from New York to nearly every city and radio station around the globe.
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Professor Imani K. Johnson provides a ringside seat and exceedingly informed analysis in Dark Matter. Her writing is a Hip Hop 'show and prove' performance of meaning and pervasiveness, grounded in contemporary reiterations of Africanist aesthetics within global Black lives.
