| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Choreographing in color -- Zombies and prisoner rehabilitation -- Heroes and Filipino migrations -- Robots and affirmative choreographies -- Judges and international competitions -- Hip-hop ambassadors and conventions |
| Summary |
"In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists, choreographers, and organizers, Perillo asserts the importance in shifting attention away from the predominant Philippine neoliberal and US imperialist emphasis on Filipinos as superb mimics, heroic migrants, model minorities, and natural dancers, and instead asks: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate the violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and hip-hop? Employing critical race, feminist, and performance studies, Perillo analyzes the conditions of possibility that gave rise to Filipino dance phenomena across viral, migrant, theatrical, competitive, and diplomatic performance in the Philippines and diaspora. Advocating for serious engagements with the dancing body, Perillo rethinks a staple of hip-hop's regulation, the "euphemism," as a mode of social critique for understanding how folks have engaged with both racial histories of colonialism and gendered labor migration. Figures of euphemism--the zombie, hero, robot, and judge--constitute a way of seeing Filipino hip-hop as contiguous with a multi-racial repertoire of imperial crossing, thus uncovering the ways Black dance intersects Filipino racialization and reframing the ongoing, contested underdog relationship between Filipinos and US global power"--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
"The Choreographing in Color website complements your engagement of the book's words and still images and helps illustrate the arguments within"--Page xix |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on October 19, 2020) |
| Subject |
Hip-hop dance -- Social aspects -- Philippines
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Hip-hop dance -- Social aspects -- United States
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Dance and race.
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Filipinos -- Social life and customs
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Filipino Americans -- Social life and customs
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Filipino Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Dance and race
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Filipino Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Filipino Americans -- Social life and customs
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Filipinos -- Social life and customs
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International relations
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Philippines
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190054311 |
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019005431X |
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