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Record Nr.

UNINA9910875581903321

Autore

Kurfürst Sandra <p>Sandra Kurfürst, Universität zu Köln, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Dancing Youth : Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam / Sandra Kurfürst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-5634-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Collana

Global Studies

Disciplina

793.3

Soggetti

Dance

Youth

Vietnam

Gender

Hip Hop

Southeast Asia

Urban Culture

Post-Socialist

Society

Globalization

Culture

Sociology of Culture

Popular Culture

Cultural History

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Acknowledgements    7  Hip Hop, Youth, and Urbanism    9  Dance and Gender    35  Urbanism and Hip Hop Communities of Practice    61  Breaking    97  Popping and Locking    123  Hip Hop Dance    145  Waacking    167  Self-Entrepreneurism and Self-Fashioning    191  Interlude: Circulation, Standardization, and Technique    227  Cultivating the Hip Hop Self    235  References    251

Sommario/riassunto

Breaking, popping, locking, waacking, and hip-hop dance are practiced



widely in contemporary Vietnam. Considering the dance practices in the larger context of post-socialist transformation, urban restructuring, and changing gender relations, Sandra Kurfürst examines youth's aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews, sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion. As a contribution to area and global studies, the book illuminates the translocal spatialities of hip hop, produced through the circulation of objects and the movement of people.