Dark Matter In Breaking Cyphers

Author : Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson,Imani Kai Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190856694

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Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers by Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson,Imani Kai Johnson Pdf

The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations--evident in expressive qualities like call and response, the aural kinesthetic, the imperative to be original, and more--are essential to cyphering's enduring presence on the global stage. What can cyphers activate beyond the spectacle? What lessons do cyphers offer about moving through and navigating the social world? And what possibilities for the future do they animate? With an interdisciplinary reach and a riff on physics, author Imani Kai Johnson centers the voices of practitioners in a study of breaking events in cities across the US, Canada, and parts of Europe. Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: the Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop draws on over a decade of research and provides a detailed look into the vitality of Africanist aesthetics and the epistemological possibilities of the ritual circle.

Author : Mary Fogarty,Imani Kai Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190247867

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The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies by Mary Fogarty,Imani Kai Johnson Pdf

"Featuring contributions from internationally recognized Hip Hop dancers, advocates, and scholars of various Hip Hop or streetdance practices, the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies is the first collection devoted exclusively to the dances that fall under the rubric of Hip Hop. Each of its five sections explore different key themes relevant to streetdance: legacies and traditions, Hip Hop methodologies, the politics of identity, institutionalization, Hip Hop (dance) theatre, and issues of health, injury, and rehabilitation. This compendium of topics, approaches, theoretical influences, histories, and perspectives demonstrate the futures of a field in formation. It adds new resources to research in dance and Hip Hop studies, contributing to ongoing debates within Hip Hop dance communities globally"--

Author : Simone C. Drake,Dwan K. Henderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478009009

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Are You Entertained? by Simone C. Drake,Dwan K. Henderson Pdf

The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow, politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese Thompson

Author : Quentin Williams,Jaspal Naveel Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031219559

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Global Hiphopography by Quentin Williams,Jaspal Naveel Singh Pdf

This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world. The authors’ focus in this volume is to present an anthology of essays that expand the remit of Hiphopography as an approach to the study of Hip Hop that is not only sensitive to the social, economic, political and cultural lives of Hip Hop Culture participants as interpreters and theorists, but one that continues to humanize the “whole person” behind the decks, on the mic, rocking on the linoleum floor, painting in front of a wall, and seeking that Knowledge of Self. This book will be relevant to Hip Hop scholars in fields such as cultural studies and history, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnography, and race studies, while Hip Hop heads themselves will find parts of this book that represent their culture in ethical and informative ways.

Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452967950

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Dancing Indigenous Worlds by Jacqueline Shea Murphy Pdf

The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she shows how dance artists communicate Indigenous ways of being, as well as generate a political force, engaging Indigenous understandings and histories. Following specific dance works over time, Shea Murphy interweaves analysis, personal narrative, and written contributions from multiple dance artists, demonstrating dance’s crucial work in asserting and enacting Indigenous worldviews and the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples. As Shea Murphy asserts, these dance-making practices can not only disrupt the structures that European colonization feeds upon and strives to maintain, but they can also recalibrate contemporary dance. Based on more than twenty years of relationship building and research, Shea Murphy’s work contributes to growing, and largely underreported, discourses on decolonizing dance studies, and the geopolitical, gendered, racial, and relational meanings that dance theorizes and negotiates. She also includes discussions about the ethics of writing about Indigenous knowledge and peoples as a non-Indigenous scholar, and models approaches for doing so within structures of ongoing reciprocal, respectful, responsible action.

Author : Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472903825

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Kinethic California by Naomi Macalalad Bragin Pdf

Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance invented by youth living in 1970s California, who helped build the foundations of contemporary hip hop/streetdance culture. Naomi Macalalad Bragin weaves interviews and ethnographies of first-generation (1960s-70s) dancers of strutting, boogaloo, robotting, popping, locking, waacking, and punking styles, as it advances a theory of dance as kinetic kinship formation through a focus on techniques and practices of the dancers themselves. She offers that the term given to these collective movement practices is kinethic to bring attention to motion at the core of black aesthetics that generate dances as forms of kinship beyond blood relation. Kinethics reorient dancers toward kinetic kinship in ways that give continuity to black dance lineages under persistent conditions of disappearance and loss. As dancers engage kinethics, they reinvent gestural vocabularies that describe worlds they imagine into knowing-being. The stories in Kinethic California attend to the aesthetics of everyday movement, seen through the lens of young artists who, from childhood, listened to their family’s soul and funk records, observed the bent-leg strolls and rhythmic handshakes of people moving through their neighborhoods, and watched each other move at house parties, school gyms, and around-the-way social clubs. Their aesthetic sociality and geographic movement provided materials for collective study and creative play. Bragin attends to such multidirectional conversations between dancer, community, and tradition, by which California dance lineages emerge and take flight.

Author : Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501394331

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The Birth of Breaking by Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian Pdf

The untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world, with around one million participants in this dynamic, multifaceted artform – and, as of 2024, Olympic sport. Yet, despite its global reach and nearly 50-year history, stories of breaking's origins have largely neglected the African Americans who founded it. Dancer and scholar Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian offers, for the first time, a detailed look into the African American beginnings of breaking in the Bronx, New York. The Birth of Breaking challenges numerous myths and misconceptions that have permeated studies of hip-hop's evolution, considering the influence breaking has had on hip-hop culture. Including previously unseen archival material, interviews, and detailed depictions of the dance at its outset, this book brings to life this buried history, with a particular focus on the early development of the dance, the institutional settings where hip-hop was conceived, and the movement's impact on sociocultural conditions in New York City throughout the 1970s. By featuring the overlooked first-hand accounts of over 50 founding b-boys and b-girls alongside movement analysis informed by his embodied knowledge of the dance, Aprahamian reveals how indebted breaking is to African American culture, as well as the disturbing factors behind its historical erasure.

Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781639364336

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The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by Sinclair McKay Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations. There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament, too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. In The Hidden History of Code Breaking, Sinclair McKay explores these uncrackable codes, secret ciphers, and hidden messages from across time to tell a new history of a secret world. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, we will see how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations. Here is the complete guide to the hidden world of codebreaking, with opportunities for you to see if you could have cracked some of the trickiest puzzles and lip-chewing codes ever created.

Author : Jonas Schmidt,Christoph Weniger,Tsutomu Yanagida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:682167659

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Dynamical Matter-parity Breaking and Gravitino Dark Matter by Jonas Schmidt,Christoph Weniger,Tsutomu Yanagida Pdf

Author : M S Seigar
Publisher : Myprint
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681747618

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Dark Matter in the Universe by M S Seigar Pdf

Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107037465

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The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop by Justin A. Williams Pdf

This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Author : Robert K. Soberman
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780741406491

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Dark Matter Illuminated by Robert K. Soberman Pdf

Author : Arthur Fehres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0980498627

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Dark Matter Tamed by Arthur Fehres Pdf

Author : Eugene J. Laviolette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0578540797

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Dark Matter is Nonexistent by Eugene J. Laviolette Pdf

Dark Matter is Nonexistent by Eugene J. Laviolette theorizes, based on mathematical calculation that dark matter does not exist. This explosive scientific theory just may change what we know about the Universe forever. Proving conversion of Conventional Second-Dimensional calculations to Third-dimensional expression relevant to the sphere reflects a loss of 23.36985% of Surface Area on the Second-Dimensional plane. This % is equal to the inferred % of missing matter called DARK MATTER.

Author : M. Mrk
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1479204587

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Dark Matter and Dark Energy by M. Mrk Pdf

Humor/novelty book on the greatest enigma of the Cosmos (blank interior)