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Choreographing in Color - Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Paperback)
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Choreographing in Color - Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Paperback)
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In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the
development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the
late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography,
choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists,
choreographers, and organizers, Perillo shifts attention away from
the predominant Philippine neoliberal and U.S. imperialist emphasis
on Filipinos as superb mimics, heroic migrants, model minorities,
subservient wives, and natural dancers and instead asks: what does
it mean for Filipinos to navigate the violent forces of empire and
neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop? Employing critical
race, feminist, and performance studies, Perillo analyzes the
conditions of possibility that gave rise to Filipino dance
phenomena across viral, migrant, theatrical, competitive, and
diplomatic performance in the Philippines and diaspora. Advocating
for serious engagements with the dancing body, Perillo rethinks a
staple of Hip-Hop's regulation, the "euphemism," as a mode of
social critique for understanding how folks have engaged with both
racial histories of colonialism and gendered labor migration.
Figures of euphemism - the zombie, hero, robot, and judge -
constitute a way of seeing Filipino Hip-Hop as contiguous with a
multi-racial repertoire of imperial crossing, thus uncovering the
ways Black dance intersects Filipino racialization and reframing
the ongoing, contested underdog relationship between Filipinos and
U.S. global power. Choreographing in Color therefore reveals how
the Filipino dancing body has come to be, paradoxically, both
globally recognized and indiscernible.
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