{"product_id":"french-moves-felicia-mccarren-9780199939978","title":"French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop","description":"For more than two decades, \u003cem\u003ele hip hop\u003c\/em\u003e has shown another face of France: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and unequal opportunity and offered a movement vocabulary for the expression of the multicultural difference that challenges the universalist discourse of the Republic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrench hip-hoppers subscribe to U.S. black culture to articulate their own difference, but in France hip-hop was championed by a Socialist cultural policy, subsumed into the cultural heritage, and instituted as a pedagogy. France supported hip-hop dance as an art of the suburbs\u003cem\u003e: \u003c\/em\u003ea multicultural mix of North African, African and Asian forms that circulate with classical and contemporary dance performance. French hip-hop develops into concert dance, becoming a civic discourse and legitimate employment, not through the familiar model of a culture industry, but within a Republic of Culture. It nuances an Anglo-Saxon model of identity politics with a francophone identity poetics and grants its dancers a national profile\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eas artists who develop dance techniques and transmit body-based knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book, the first in English to introduce readers to the French hip-hop movement, analyzes the choreographic development of hip-hop into \u003cem\u003ela\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003edanse urbaine, \u003c\/em\u003e touring on national and international stages, as hip-hoppers move beyond the\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003esuburbs, figuring new forms within the mobility brought by new media and global migration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felicia McCarren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199939977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199939978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014","brand":"Felicia McCarren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913407889663,"sku":"9780199939978","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_24fb45f4-470b-491a-86b9-beaa8177ddc5.jpg?v=1680620265","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/french-moves-felicia-mccarren-9780199939978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}