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TikTok Cultures in the United States examines the role of TikTok in
US popular culture, paying close attention to the app's growing
body of subcultures. Featuring an array of scholars from varied
disciplines and backgrounds, this book uses TikTok (sub)cultures as
a point of departure from which to explore TikTok's role in US
popular culture today. Engaging with the extensive and growing
scholarship on TikTok from international scholars, chapters in this
book create frameworks and blueprints from which to analyze TikTok
within a distinctly US context, examining topics such as gender and
sexuality, feminism, race and ethnicity and wellness. Shaping
TikTok as an interdisciplinary field in and of itself, this
insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to students
and scholars of new and digital media, social media, popular
culture, communication studies, sociology of media, dance, gender
studies, and performance studies.
Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and
practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that
specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of
Shakespeare's plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment
of this style of adaptation, bringing together the diverse voices
working in this field today including leading academics,
playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and
interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship,
dramaturgy and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with
Shakespeare.
This book introduces readers to the widespread phenomenon of how
social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok become
an extension of long-standing aspects of musical theatre
engagement. Although casual observers may dismiss social media’s
import, social media has revolutionized the field of musical
theatre since the early days of Web 2.0 with spaces such as AOL,
LiveJournal, and Myspace. Now, as social media continues to grow in
relevance, the nuanced ways in which digital platforms influence
musical culture remain ripe for study. Social Media in Musical
Theatre moves beyond viewing social media merely as a passing fad
or a space free from critical engagement. Rather, this volume takes
a serious look at the critical role social media play in musicals,
thus challenging how social media users and musical theatre-makers
alike approach digital spaces. This book introduces the
relationship between musical theatre and social media in the 21st
century as well as methods to study social media’s influence on
musicals through three in-depth case studies organized around
marketing on YouTube, fan engagement on Twitter, and new musical
development on TikTok.
Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores
how hip hop culture - principally music and dance - is used to
construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth
subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social
media app that lets users record short dance challenge videos
before cross-sharing them on different social media apps such as
Instagram and Snapchat. Author Trevor Boffone interrogates the
roles that Dubsmash, social media, and hip hop music and dance play
in youth identity formation in the United States. These so-called
Dubsmashers privilege their cultural and individual identities
through the use of performance strategies that reinforce notions of
community and social media interconnectedness in the digital age.
These young people create a sense of identity and community that
informs and is informed by hip hop culture. As such, the book
argues that Dubsmash serves as a fundamental space to fashion
contemporary youth identity. To do this, the book re-appropriates
the term "Renegade" to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers
take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion
identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to
take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their
lives.
Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards
for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author A curated collection of new
Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and
critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground
between Latinx and Latin American artists? Featuring a mix of plays
and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino
Theater Company's Encuentro de las Americas festival, produced in
partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los
Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only
the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a
transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American
theatre-making. Alongside plays by Evelina Fernandez, Alex
Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdran this anthology also
includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews
that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections
within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection
it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx
artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement
and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas. Full
playtexts include: Dementia by Evelina Fernandez WET: A DACAmented
Journey by Alex Alpharoah Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza 10
Million by Carlos Celdran
Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and
practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that
specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of
Shakespeare's plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment
of this style of adaptation, bringing together the diverse voices
working in this field today including leading academics,
playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and
interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship,
dramaturgy and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with
Shakespeare.
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference Theatre
History Studies is the official journal of the Mid-America Theatre
Conference, Inc. (MATC). The conference is dedicated to the growth
and improvement of all forms of theatre throughout a twelve-state
region that includes the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and
Wisconsin. Its purposes are to unite people and organizations
within this region and elsewhere who have an interest in theatre
and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.
Published annually since 1981, Theatre History Studies provides
critical, analytical, and descriptive essays on all aspects of
theatre history and is devoted to disseminating the highest quality
peer-review scholarship in the field.
Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Aviles, Trevor Boffone,
Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Domino Renee Perez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne
Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths,
Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult
Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address
questions of outsider identities and how these identities are
shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people,
particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling,
underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how
young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd,
or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities
expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings
of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of
such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper,
Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are
themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children's and young adult
literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx
youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within
an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks,
and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural
paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present
in films, television, and the internet.
Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil's, Trevor Boffone,
Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Domino Renee Perez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne
Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths,
Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult
Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address
questions of outsider identities and how these identities are
shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people,
particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling,
underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how
young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd,
or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities
expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings
of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of
such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper,
Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are
themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children's and young adult
literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx
youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within
an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks,
and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural
paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present
in films, television, and the internet.
Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards
for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author A curated collection of new
Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and
critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground
between Latinx and Latin American artists? Featuring a mix of plays
and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino
Theater Company's Encuentro de las Americas festival, produced in
partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los
Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only
the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a
transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American
theatre-making. Alongside plays by Evelina Fernandez, Alex
Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdran this anthology also
includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews
that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections
within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection
it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx
artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement
and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas. Full
playtexts include: Dementia by Evelina Fernandez WET: A DACAmented
Journey by Alex Alpharoah Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza 10
Million by Carlos Celdran
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