Naomi Bragin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1696146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Bragin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bragin |
| SIGNATURE | BRAGIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naomi Bragin is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She works at the intersection of dance, performance studies, critical black theory, and ethnography, drawing from her background as a street dancer, educator, activist, and Founding Artistic Director of Oakland-based DREAM Dance Company. Her dissertation, “The Black Power of Hip-Hop Dance: On Kinesthetic Politics,” is an ethno-history of hip hop's California foundations during the 1960s and 1970s, and a critique of the politics and... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shot and Captured
Turfing is an improvisation-based dance that defines black street culture in neighborhoods of Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. A form of testimony to disproportionate policing, incarceration, and the deaths of black youth, turfing's local practice persists in counterpoint to the global viral trafficking of hood dance and black performance
Techniques of black male re/dress
The improvisation-based dance Waacking/Punking developed in gay underground disco clubs of 1970s Los Angeles and circulated transnationally via television's landmark black music/dance show Soul Train. With almost all male progenitors passing during the early AIDS crisis, the culture was reborn in the 2000s to the transnational hip-hop/street dance arena, now a competition style dominated by nonblack cisgender females. While seeming to promote het…
Techniques of black male re/dress
The improvisation-based dance Waacking/Punking developed in gay underground disco clubs of 1970s Los Angeles and circulated transnationally via television's landmark black music/dance show Soul Train. With almost all male progenitors passing during the early AIDS crisis, the culture was reborn in the 2000s to the transnational hip-hop/street dance arena, now a competition style dominated by nonblack cisgender females. While seeming to promote het…
Shot and Captured
Turfing is an improvisation-based dance that defines black street culture in neighborhoods of Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. A form of testimony to disproportionate policing, incarceration, and the deaths of black youth, turfing's local practice persists in counterpoint to the global viral trafficking of hood dance and black performance
Techniques of black male re/dress
The improvisation-based dance Waacking/Punking developed in gay underground disco clubs of 1970s Los Angeles and circulated transnationally via television's landmark black music/dance show Soul Train. With almost all male progenitors passing during the early AIDS crisis, the culture was reborn in the 2000s to the transnational hip-hop/street dance arena, now a competition style dominated by nonblack cisgender females. While seeming to promote het…
Art (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · History (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Choreography (1 works) · Contemporary dance (1 works)