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Author Bragin, Naomi Macalalad, author.

Title Kinethic California : dancing funk & disco era kinships / Naomi Macalalad Bragin.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages : color illustrations)
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Series Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices
Studies in dance: theories and practices.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214).
Access Open access MiU
Summary Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance in 1970s California, forms embedded in local cultural histories but connected to the contemporary global culture of hip hop/streetdance. The book weaves interviews and ethnographies of first generation (1960s-70s) dancers of strutting, boogaloo, robotting, popping, locking, waacking, and punking styles, as it advances a theory of dance as kinetic kinship formation, through a focus on techniques and practices of the dancers themselves. The term given to these collective movement practices is kinethic, to bring attention to motion at the core of black aesthetics that generate dances as forms of kinship beyond blood relation. Kinethics reorient dancers toward kinetic kinship in ways that give continuity to black dance lineages under persistent conditions of disappearance and loss. As dancers engage kinethics, they reinvent gestural vocabularies that describe worlds they imagine into knowing-being. The stories in Kinethic California attend to the aesthetics of everyday movement, seen through the lens of young artists who from childhood listened to their family's soul and funk records, observed the bent-leg strolls and rhythmic handshakes of people moving through their neighborhoods, and watched each other move at house parties, school gyms, and around-the-way social clubs. Their aesthetic sociality and geographic movement provided materials for collective study and creative play. Naomi Macalalad Bragin attends to such multidirectional conversations between dancer, community, and tradition, by way of which California dance lineages emerge and take flight.
Funding Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Description based on information from the publisher.
Subject African American dance -- California -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Hip-hop -- History and criticism.
Danses noires américaines -- Californie -- Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains -- Mœurs et coutumes.
Hip-hop -- Histoire et critique.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Added Title Kinethic California : dancing funk and disco era kinships
ISBN 9780472076413 (electronic bk.)
0472076418 (electronic bk.)
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0472056417 (electronic bk.)
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