The Oxford handbook of hip hop dance studies

Introduction / Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson

Part I. Hip hop dance legacies and traditions. Foundation : context and components of breaking fundamentals / Kenneth "Ken Swift" Gabbert and Yarrow "Osofly" Lutz ; The camera in the cypher : high times and hypervisibility in early hip hop dance / Vanessa Fleet Lakewood ; The technical developments in breaking from conditioning to mindset / Niels "Storm" Robitzky ; Connecting hip hop history and heritage / E. Moncell Durden ; Kung Fu fandom : B-Boys and the Grindhouse distribution of Kung Fu films / Eric Pellerin ; What makes a man break? / Mary Fogarty

Part II. Hip hop dance methodologies. Learn your history : using academic oral histories of NYC B-girls in the 1990s to broaden hip hop scholarship / MiRi Park ; Hard love part 1 : corporealities of women ethnographers of hip hop dances / Imani Kai Johnson ; Framing hip hop dance as an object of sociological and cultural research / Andy Bennett ; Through sound and space : notes on education from the edge of the cypher / Emery Petchauer ; The vault : collecting and archiving streetdance footage / Marc "Scramblelock" Sakalauskas ; Critical hiphopography in streetdance communities (Hard love part 2) / Imani Kai Johnson

Part III. Overstanding identities in hip hop streetdance practices. Breaking in my house : popular dance, gender identities, and postracial empathies / Thomas F. DeFrantz ; Globalization and the hip hop dance cipher / Halifu Osumare and Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu ; Asian American liminality : racial triangulation in hip hop dance / Grace Shinhae Jun ; Breakin' down the bloc : hip hop dance in Armenia / Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian ; Twerking and P-popping in the context of the New Orleans local hip hop scene / Matt Miller ; Is she B-boying or B-girling? : understanding how B-girls negotiate gender and belonging / Helen Simard

Part IV. Breaking with convention. Streetdance and Black aesthetics / Naomi Macalalad Bragin ; Living in the tension : the aesthetics and logics of popping / Rosemarie A. Roberts ; Staging hip hop dance : fly girls in the house / Leah "McFly" McKesey, Diana "Fly Lady Di" Reyes and Mary "MJ" Fogarty ; Battles and ballets : hip hop dance in France / Roberta Shapiro, translation by David Lavin, Roberta Shapiro, and Imani Kai Johnson ; Negotiating the metaspace : hip hop dance artists in the space of UK dance theatre / Paul Sadot ; Make the letters dance : a hip hop approach to creative practice / Anthony "YNOT" DeNaro and Mary Fogarty

Part V. Hip hop health : injury, healing, and rehabilitation. Hip hop dance and injury prevention / Tony Ingram ; They come for the hip hop, but stay for the healing / Stephen "Buddha" Leafloor ; Can expert dancers be a springboard model to examine neurorehabilitation via dance? / Rebecca Barnstaple, Débora Rabinovich, and Joseph Francis Xavier DeSouza

Afterword: Dance, hip hop studies and the academy / Joseph Schloss.