French Moves : The Cultural Politics of le Hip Hop.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series .
- Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Politics and Poetics -- 1. Hip Hop Citizens: Politics, Culture, and Performance -- 2. Hip Hop "Speaks" French -- 3. Hip Hop as Postcolonial Representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust -- PART TWO: Techniques and Technologies -- 4. Dancing in and out of the Box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon -- 5. Breaking History: Hél è ne Cixous' L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara -- 6. Techniques: French Urban Dance in Intellectual Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Hip hop is known as a global phenomenon, but something different happened in France, where it has received public support in the form of funding from national and local governments. 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.
9780199939961
Hip-hop dance -- France. Hip-hop -- Political aspects -- France. Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- France. France -- Social life and customs.