The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

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Mary Fogarty (Associate Professor of Dance, Associate Professor of Dance, York University) Imani Kai Johnson (Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside)

The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

Mary Fogarty (Associate Professor of Dance, Associate Professor of Dance, York University), Imani Kai Johnson (Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside)

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Oxford University Press Inc
10 September 2025

Contemporary dance; Rap & Hip-Hop; Ethnic studies

Series: Oxford Handbooks

Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date. Filling a lacuna in both Hip Hop and dance studies, the Handbook places practitioners' voices at the forefront and in dialogue with theoretical insights, rooted in critical race theory, anticolonialism, intersectional feminism, and more. Volume editors Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson have included influential dancers and scholars from around the world: from B-Boys Ken Swift, YNOT, and Storm, to practitioners of locking, waacking and House dance styles such as E. Moncell Durden, Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu, Fly Lady Di, and Leah McFly, and innovative academic work on Hip Hop dance by the most prominent researchers in the field. Throughout the Handbook contributors address individual and social histories of dance, Afrodiasporic and global lineages, the contribution of B-Girls from Honey Rockwell to Rokafella, the ""studio-fication"" of Hip Hop styles, and moves into theatre, TV, and the digital/social media space.

Edited by: Mary Fogarty (Associate Professor of Dance Associate Professor of Dance York University), Imani Kai Johnson (Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 173mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 953g
ISBN: 9780197815014
ISBN 10: 0197815014
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 10 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Fogarty is a lifelong B-Girl and Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the co-editor of Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films (with Mark Evans) and has contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music Style and Identity, among other publications. 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.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

Serving as an introduction to hip-hop dance studies, this handbook provides fresh voices and perspectives on dance and its role in hip-hop culture. * E. Milenkiewicz, Choice * Serving as an introduction to hip-hop dance studies, this handbook provides fresh voices and perspectives on dance and its role in hip-hop culture. * Choice * The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies is an important contribution to hip-hop research, and in the coming years it will likely function as a central reference work in the production of knowledge concerning hip-hop in general and hip-hop dance specifically. Not least, I reckon that it should be relevant as an encyclopedia and reference work for those interested in breaking when it appears in the Paris Olympics this summer. * Jacob Kimvall, idrottsforum.org *