DancingIsNotACrime
Dance as Digital Resistance in the Transnational 21st Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21981946 |
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| Authors | Christopher J Smith (0000-0001-6417-0824), Christopher Smith (0000-0002-6049-5514, Texas Tech University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 12-24 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IASPM Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2079-3871 • E-ISSN: 2079-3871 |
| Publisher | International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5429/2079-3871(2023)v13i2.2en |
| OpenAlex | W4389935793 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In a live video posted to YouTube Sept 2 2014, a young woman, dressed in black and standing on a stationary car, dances, unwinds her hijab and fluffs her long hair. The upload, since disappeared, registered over 1 million views, and precipitated a spate of responses depicting young women dancing in public places, eventually spawning the hashtag #DancingIsNotACrime. In many cultures across many eras, dancing in public has been a tool for resistance. Those employing movement as resistance often do so precisely because street dance is portable, mutable, and infinitely viral: capable of transmission by person-to-person contact. Multiple subaltern revolutionary movements have begun in search of safe spaces for dancing, and the repression of public dance has been a locus for authoritarian crackdowns. Drawing upon methodologies from semiotics, musicology, kinesics, and political science, this essay explores #DancingIsNotACrime as a potent, present, and immediate vehicle seeking justice and social revolution
Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Law · Music History and Culture · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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