{"product_id":"french-moves","title":"French Moves","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, le hip hop has shown another face of France: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and unequal opportunity and offered a movement vocabulary for the expression of the multicultural difference that challenges the universalist discourse of the Republic.  French hip-hoppers subscribe to U.S. black culture to articulate their own difference, but in\n\u003cbr\u003eFrance hip-hop was championed by a Socialist cultural policy, subsumed into the cultural heritage, and instituted as a pedagogy. France supported hip-hop dance as an art of the suburbs: a  multicultural mix of\n\u003cbr\u003eNorth African, African and Asian forms that circulate with classical and contemporary dance performance. French hip-hop develops into concert dance, becoming a civic discourse and legitimate employment, not through the familiar model of a culture industry, but within a Republic of Culture. It nuances an Anglo-Saxon model of identity politics with a francophone identity poetics and grants its dancers a national profile as artists who develop dance techniques and transmit body-based\n\u003cbr\u003eknowledge.This book, the first in English to introduce readers to the French hip-hop movement, analyzes the choreographic development of hip-hop into la danse urbaine, touring on national and\n\u003cbr\u003einternational stages, as hip-hoppers move beyond the suburbs, figuring new forms within the mobility brought by new media and global migration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156536094958,"sku":"9780199939978","price":82.02,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199939978.jpg?v=1706221076","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/french-moves","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}