Dance in US Popular Culture

Contents

• PART 1: 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
• "Watching from Another Place": Dara Milovanovic and Elena Benthaus Converse about Outside Perceptions of American Pop Culture
• 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
• Part 2: Stereotypes & 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
• The Law of the Jungle: A Conversation with Philip Ancheta about Performing for Walt Disney World
• 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
• 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
• 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
• "Far Across the Distance": A Competition Judge's Perspective from behind the Table
• Madeline Kurtz
• Part 3: Recognitions & 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 Stars"
• Bhumi B. Patel
• Perseverance, Resistance, Persistence...and a Lot of Shaking: A Conversation with NaTonia Monet about Performing in the Broadway Musical Tina
• 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 & TikTok Meme-ography: Pointing Towards Female Health Access
• Amanda Sieradzki
• Everybody has a Dream: A Conversation with Taz Loft about Filming In the Heights
• 9. Close Up: Step-touch in New Orleans Popular Dance
• Rachel Carrico & Latanya d. Tigner
• Chapter 9 Case Studies:
• "Is He... You Know..."
• Aaron 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
• 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
• 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 (1490)
• 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
• closet disco: a meditation
• Jeremy Guyton