Sabia McCoy‐Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabia McCoy‐Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabia |
| FAMILY NAME | McCoy‐Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I wanna be the king of sounds”: Otaku and Japanese Transnational Migrants in Brooklyn Reggae Culture
This article examines the participation of transnationally migrating Japanese in Brooklyn’s reggae culture. I propose that to understand Japanese migration, it is important to consider the relevance of personal commitments to a model of information exchange that foregrounds embodied learning and direct engagement with skilled specialists, practices that otaku captures. Reggae migrants see otaku as integral to the Japanese national persona. In lig…
Love Dem Bad: Embodied Experience, Self-Adoration, and Eroticism in Dancehall
Based on fieldwork in a West Indian community in Brooklyn, New York, this article examines women's presentations of gender and sexuality in “dancehall” reggae dance. While scholarship concerning Black women in popular performance has examined hypersexual representations, it is also important to expand analyses to understand how women are empowered by their bodies through movement, subjectivity, and ecstatic experience. Using dancehall dance as an…
Cien porciento tico tico ”: Reggae, Belonging, and the Afro-Caribbean Ticos of Costa Rica
Love Dem Bad: Embodied Experience, Self-Adoration, and Eroticism in Dancehall
Based on fieldwork in a West Indian community in Brooklyn, New York, this article examines women's presentations of gender and sexuality in “dancehall” reggae dance. While scholarship concerning Black women in popular performance has examined hypersexual representations, it is also important to expand analyses to understand how women are empowered by their bodies through movement, subjectivity, and ecstatic experience. Using dancehall dance as an…
Cien porciento tico tico ”: Reggae, Belonging, and the Afro-Caribbean Ticos of Costa Rica
Love Dem Bad: Embodied Experience, Self-Adoration, and Eroticism in Dancehall
Based on fieldwork in a West Indian community in Brooklyn, New York, this article examines women's presentations of gender and sexuality in “dancehall” reggae dance. While scholarship concerning Black women in popular performance has examined hypersexual representations, it is also important to expand analyses to understand how women are empowered by their bodies through movement, subjectivity, and ecstatic experience. Using dancehall dance as an…
I wanna be the king of sounds”: Otaku and Japanese Transnational Migrants in Brooklyn Reggae Culture
This article examines the participation of transnationally migrating Japanese in Brooklyn’s reggae culture. I propose that to understand Japanese migration, it is important to consider the relevance of personal commitments to a model of information exchange that foregrounds embodied learning and direct engagement with skilled specialists, practices that otaku captures. Reggae migrants see otaku as integral to the Japanese national persona. In lig…
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Cuban History and Society (1 works) · Dance (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works)