The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers insights on individual and social histories of dance, Afrodiasporic and global lineages of the genre, the contribution of B-Girls from Honey Rockwell to Rokafella, the "studio-fication" of hip hop, and the cultural shift into theatre, TV, and the digital social media space.

Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is currently serving as the President of IASPM-Canada and the Editor of IASPM Journal, the members' journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She is a past Chair of PoP Moves Americas, a network of popular dance scholars.
Imani Kai Johnson is an interdisciplinary-trained Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. She is also founder and chair of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference series and author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop (OUP, 2022). She currently resides in Long Beach, CA.

About the Contributors
Introduction
Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson
Part I. Hip Hop Dance Legacies and Traditions
1. Foundation: Context and Components of Breaking Fundamentals
Kenneth "Ken Swift" Gabbert and Yarrow "Osofly" Lutz
2. The Camera in the Cypher: High Times and Hypervisibility in Early Hip Hop Dance
Vanessa Lakewood
3. The Technical Developments in Breaking from Conditioning to Mindset
Niels "Storm" Robitzky
4. Connecting Hip Hop History and Heritage
E. Moncell Durden
5. Kung Fu Fandom: NYC B-Boys and the Grindhouse Distribution of Kung Fu Films
Eric Pellerin
6. What Makes a Man Break?
Mary Fogarty
Part II. Hip Hop Dance Methodologies
7. Learn Your History: Using Academic Oral Histories of NYC B-Girls in the 1990s to Broaden Hip Hop Scholarship
MiRi Park
8. Hard Love Part. 1: Corporealities of Women Ethnographers of Hip Hop Dances
Imani Kai Johnson
9. Framing Hip Hop Dance as an Object of Sociological and Cultural Research
Andy Bennett
10. Through Sound and Space: Notes on Education from the Edge of the Cypher
Emery Petchauer
11. The Vault: Collecting and Archiving Street Dance Footage
Marc "Scramblelock" Sakalauskas
12. Hard Love Part 2: Critical Hiphopography in Streetdance Communities
Imani Kai Johnson
Part III. Overstanding Identities in Hip Hop Streetdance Practices
13. Breaking in My House: Popular Dance, Identity Politics, and Postracial Empathies
Thomas F. DeFrantz
14. Globalization and the Hip Hop Dance Cipher
Halifu Osumare and Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu
15. Asian American Liminality: Racial Triangulation in Hip Hop Dance
grace shinhae jun
16. Breakin' Down the Bloc: Hip Hop Dance in Armenia
Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian
17. Twerking and P-Popping in the Context of New Orleans' Local Hip-Hop Scene
Matt Miller
18. Is She B-boying or B-girling? Understanding how B-girls Negotiate Gender and Belonging
Helen Simard
Part IV. Breaking with Convention
19. Streetdance and Black Aesthetics
Naomi Bragin
20. Living in the Tension: The Aesthetics and Logics of Popping
Rosemarie A. Roberts
21. Staging Hip Hop Dance: Fly Girls in the House
Leah "McFly" McKesey, Diana "Fly Lady Di" Reyes and Mary "MJ" Fogarty
22. Battles and Ballets: Hip Hop Dance in France
Roberta Shapiro (Translation by David Lavin, Roberta Shapiro and Imani Kai Johnson)
23. Negotiating the Metaspace: Hip Hop Dance Artists in the Space of UK Dance/Theatre
Paul Sadot
24. Make the Letters Dance: A Hip Hop Approach to Creative Practice
Anthony "YNOT" DeNaro and Mary Fogarty
Part V. Hip Hop Health: Injury, Healing and Rehabilitation
25. Hip Hop Dance and Injury Prevention
Tony Ingram
26. They Come for the Hip Hop, But Stay for the Healing
Stephen "Buddha" Leafloor
27. Can Expert Dancers Be A Springboard Model to Examine Neurorehabilitation Via Dance?
Rebecca Barnstaple, Débora B. Rabinovich, and Joseph FX DeSouza
Afterword: Dance, Hip Hop Studies and the Academy
Joseph Schloss
Acknowledgments
Index