This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in - and through - culture.
Jennifer Atkins is an associate professor of dance at Florida State University.
Introduction
Jennifer Atkins and Carlee Sachs-Krook
PART I: Popular Dance as Primary Source
1. Locating Popular Dance and Dance in Popular Culture
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath and Bhumi B. Patel
Chapter 1 Case Studies:
The Invented Choreographies of the Tomahawk Chop
Kellen Hoxworth
Popular Dance Cultural Masters
Ariyan Johnson
Do the Hustle: A Saturday Night Reclamation
Abdiel Jacobsen
Bestowing Blessings and Cultivating Community: Lion Dancing in Boston's Chinatown
Casey Avaunt
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
Watching from Another Place: Outside Perceptions of American Popular Culture
Elena Benthaus and Dara Milovanovic
Chapter 1: Next Steps and Your Move!
2. Describing Dance, Writing Moving Worlds
Dahlia Li
Chapter 2 Case Studies:
In the Interest of Health and Cooperation: Women Dancing The Most Important College Interests
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
Dammn Baby! Janet Jackson Dances Pop Feminism
Elizabeth Bergman
Resistance in Rhythm: The Shim Sham Shimmy
Kat Echevarria Richter
Queerness, Closure, and the Finale Dance in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Miya Shaffer
Chapter 2: Next Steps and Your Move!
PART II: Stereotypes and Spectatorship
3. Interpreting (Multi)racial Movements in Popular Dance
Miya Shaffer
Chapter 3 Case Studies:
From a Black Cinderella and Filipino Prince to a Career in Commercial Dance
Beverly Bautista
Plasticity in Lexus's Black Panther Commercial: Choreographing Blackness as Other through Visual Echoing
Kelly Bowker
Riverdance: Remaking Race Natasha Casey
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
The Law of the Jungle: A Conversation with Philip Ancheta about Performing for Walt Disney World
Chapter 3: Next Steps and Your Move!
4. Male Bodies and Masculinity in Popular Dance
Brandon Calleja Shaw
Chapter 4 Case Studies:
Macho Sensibilities: A Dancer's Autoethnographic Journey
Yebel Gallegos
The Nicholas Brothers: Dancing Masculinity in Down Argentine Way (1940)
Pamela Krayenbuhl
Manning the Pit: Techniques of White Masculinity in Hardcore Punk Moshing
Emily Kaniuka
Bey-Boy: Channing Tatum, Mimesis, and a Test of Masculinity
Nicholas Richardson
Chapter 4: Next Steps and Your Move!
5. Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV
Juliet McMains
Chapter 5 Case Studies:
Subverting Body Ideals: Abject, Tactile Film Style in John Waters's Hairspray
Roxanne Hearn
Dancing Girls and Dance Moms: Performing Femininity on the Dance Competition Stage
Karen Schupp
#Burberry and the Utility of Black Femininity
Ronya-Lee Anderson
Toying with Chauvinism: Parody in Anna Nikki's Pole Classique Routine
Carlee Sachs-Krook
Chapter 5: Next Steps and Your Move!
6. Spectacle, the Gaze, and Agency in Popular Dance
Colleen T. Dunagan
Chapter 6 Case Studies:
Fosse Meets Fetish: When Fosse Goes (Really) Kinky
Dara Milovanovic
Spectacular Choreographies of Epic Proportions: Ricki Starr the Ballet-Dancing Wrestler
Laura Katz Rizzo
Sparkling Subversion
Catherine Cabeen
Belly Dance as Restaurant Entertainment
Somya Jatwani
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
Far Across the Distance: A Competition Judge's Perspective from behind the Table
Madeline Kurtz
Chapter 6: Next Steps and Your Move!
PART III: Recognitions and Revisions
7. Popular Dance and Intersectionality
Jeremy Guyton and Celeste Landeros
Chapter 7 Case Studies:
Naomi Osaka's Hafuness and Polycultural Dance Moves
Maiko Le Lay
Como La Flor: Selena's Animation of Intersectional Identity
Anabel Bordelon
Gender Is a Drag: Performing Hybridity on RuPaul's Drag Race's Maxi Challenge Prancing with the Queens
Bhumi B. Patel
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
Resistance, Resilience, Overcoming a Lot: Talking with NaTonia Monet about Performing in the Broadway Musical Tina
Chapter 7: Next Steps and Your Move!
8. Mass Media and Social Circulations of Popular Dance
Laura H. C. Robinson
Chapter 8 Case Studies:
They're the Same Picture: Repetition as Political Critique in Instagram Dance Memes
Miya Shaffer
Legitimization and Circulation of Hip-Hop Dance in Real Talk: Hip-Hop Education for Social Justice
Maiko Le Lay
Just Stick to the Flamenco: Flamenco on NBC's World of Dance
Amy Schofield
Dancing Doctors and TikTok Meme-ography: Pointing Toward Female Health Access
Amanda Gabaldon
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
Everybody has a Dream: Talking with Taz Loft about Filming In the Heights (2021).
Chapter 8: Next Steps and Your Move!
9. Close Up: Step-Touch in New Orleans Popular Dance
Rachel Carrico and Latanya D. Tigner
Chapter 9 Case Studies:
Is He... You Know...
Aaron C. Thomas
Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass: A White Girl's Booty Anthem
Colleen T. Dunagan
B-Girl Sunny and the Performativity of the Gaze
Sherril Dodds
Varsity Spirit's Propertied, White Settler Femininity
Sammy Roth
Chapter 9: Next Steps and Your Move!
10. The Politics of Popular Movements
Irvin Manuel Gonzalez
Chapter 10 Case Studies:
New Deal Rhythm
: Hollywood Chorus Girls Get Political
Anna Waller
To Exist is to Survive Unfair Choices: The OA and Queer Acts of Protest
Bhumi B. Patel
Orderly Chaos: Moshing in SLC Punk!
Adrian S. A. Manning
Asserting Indigenous Agency Beyond Colonial Spatialities through RainbowGlitz's Burlesque Love Medicine
Evangelina Macias
Chapter 10: Next Steps and Your Move!
11. Popularizing American-ness
Tria Blu Wakpa
Chapter 11 Case Studies:
Ballet at the Movies or Dancing on the Limits of American-ness: Thalia Zanou
Anna Leon
Romanticizing the Old South in the Confederate Pageant
Teresa Simone
Experimenting with Lady J: A Trans Take on Drag
J. Davenport, PhD
Welcome to America: Reassigning Appropriation through Choreography in Soft Power
Laura London Waringer
~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~
closet disco: a meditation
Jeremy Guyton
Chapter 11: Next Steps and Your Move!