AAS 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hip-Hop Dance, Asian American Studies, Jabbawockeez

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 246
• Professor: Kwon Soo Ah

Document Summary

Youth culture and youth subculture refers to groupings of young people that are separate from parent and dominant culture. Members of a subculture usually share cultural practices, beliefs, and or symbols (e. g. dress, language, style, activities) to distinguish themselves from the members of other social groups. It is often linked to resistance but is not necessarily so. Popular culture e. g. hip-hop is important cultural form to examine contemporary workings of race, gender, sexuality, citizenship, culture, and politics. Cultural appropriation and exploita2on hypermale black masculinity; female subjugation . Asianness into hip-hop a(cid:373)erica"s best da(cid:374)ce crew a(cid:374)d hip-hop dance. Season 1 premiered 2008 on mtv season ending placement: jabbawockeez, status quo, kaba modern. Associate professor of ethnic studies, university of hawaii and manoa. Research interest: cri2cal ethnic studies, asian american studies, spa2al theory, cultural. Studies and cultural geography, chinese american studies/chinese diasporas. Abdc members: phil tayag, kevin brewer, rynan paguio, chris gatdula, and phi nguyen;