Dance in US Popular Culture

Jennifer Atkins is an associate professor of dance at Florida State University.

• Introduction Jennifer Atkins and Carlee Sachs-KrookPART I: Popular Dance as Primary Source 1. Locating Popular Dance and Dance in Popular CultureJessica Ray Herzogenrath and Bhumi B. PatelChapter 1 Case Studies:The Invented Choreographies of the Tomahawk Chop Kellen HoxworthPopular Dance Cultural Masters Ariyan JohnsonDo the Hustle: A Saturday Night Reclamation Abdiel JacobsenBestowing Blessings and Cultivating Community: Lion Dancing in Boston’s Chinatown Casey Avaunt ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~Watching from Another Place: Outside Perceptions of American Popular CultureElena Benthaus and Dara MilovanovićChapter 1: Next Steps and Your Move!2. Describing Dance, Writing Moving WorldsDahlia LiChapter 2 Case Studies:In the Interest of Health and Cooperation: Women Dancing "The Most Important College Interests" Jessica Ray HerzogenrathDammn Baby! Janet Jackson Dances Pop Feminism Elizabeth BergmanResistance in Rhythm: The Shim Sham Shimmy Kat Echevarría RichterQueerness, Closure, and the Finale Dance in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Miya ShafferChapter 2: Next Steps and Your Move!PART II: Stereotypes and Spectatorship3. Interpreting (Multi)racial Movements in Popular DanceMiya ShafferChapter 3 Case Studies:From a Black Cinderella and Filipino Prince to a Career in Commercial Dance Beverly BautistaPlasticity in Lexus’s Black Panther Commercial: Choreographing Blackness as Other through Visual Echoing Kelly BowkerRiverdance: Remaking Race Natasha Casey~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~The Law of the Jungle: A Conversation with Philip Ancheta about Performing for Walt Disney WorldChapter 3: Next Steps and Your Move!4. Male Bodies and Masculinity in Popular DanceBrandon Calleja ShawChapter 4 Case Studies:Macho Sensibilities: A Dancer’s Autoethnographic Journey Yebel GallegosThe Nicholas Brothers: Dancing Masculinity in Down Argentine Way (1940) Pamela KrayenbuhlManning the Pit: Techniques of White Masculinity in Hardcore Punk Moshing Emily KaniukaBey-Boy: Channing Tatum, Mimesis, and a Test of Masculinity Nicholas RichardsonChapter 4: Next Steps and Your Move!5. Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV Juliet McMainsChapter 5 Case Studies:Subverting Body Ideals: Abject, Tactile Film Style in John Waters’s Hairspray Roxanne HearnDancing Girls and Dance Moms: Performing Femininity on the Dance Competition Stage Karen Schupp#Burberry and the Utility of Black Femininity Ronya-Lee Anderson Toying with Chauvinism: Parody in Anna Nikki’s Pole Classique Routine Carlee Sachs-KrookChapter 5: Next Steps and Your Move!6. Spectacle, the Gaze, and Agency in Popular DanceColleen T. DunaganChapter 6 Case Studies:"Fosse Meets Fetish": When Fosse Goes (Really) Kinky Dara MilovanovićSpectacular Choreographies of Epic Proportions: Ricki Starr the Ballet-Dancing Wrestler Laura Katz RizzoSparkling Subversion Catherine CabeenBelly Dance as Restaurant Entertainment Somya Jatwani~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~"Far Across the Distance": A Competition Judge’s Perspective from behind the TableMadeline KurtzChapter 6: Next Steps and Your Move!PART III: Recognitions and Revisions7. Popular Dance and Intersectionality Jeremy Guyton and Celeste LanderosChapter 7 Case Studies:Naomi Osaka’s Hafuness and Polycultural Dance MovesMaïko Le Lay"Como La Flor": Selena’s Animation of Intersectional Identity Anabel BordelonGender Is a Drag: Performing Hybridity on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Maxi Challenge "Prancing with the Queens" Bhumi B. Patel~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~Resistance, Resilience, Overcoming a Lot: Talking with NaTonia Monét about Performing in the Broadway Musical TinaChapter 7: Next Steps and Your Move!8. Mass Media and Social Circulations of Popular DanceLaura H. C. RobinsonChapter 8 Case Studies:"They’re the Same Picture": Repetition as Political Critique in Instagram Dance MemesMiya Shaffer Legitimization and Circulation of Hip-Hop Dance in "Real Talk: Hip-Hop Education for Social Justice" Maïko Le Lay"Just Stick to the Flamenco": Flamenco on NBC’s World of Dance Amy SchofieldDancing Doctors and TikTok Meme-ography: Pointing Toward Female Health Access Amanda Gabaldon~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~Everybody has a Dream: Talking with Taz Loft about Filming In the Heights (2021). Chapter 8: Next Steps and Your Move!9. Close Up: Step-Touch in New Orleans Popular DanceRachel Carrico and Latanya D. TignerChapter 9 Case Studies:Is He… You Know…Aaron C. ThomasMeghan Trainor’s "All About That Bass": A White Girl’s Booty Anthem Colleen T. Dunagan B-Girl Sunny and the Performativity of the Gaze Sherril DoddsVarsity Spirit’s Propertied, White Settler Femininity Sammy RothChapter 9: Next Steps and Your Move!10. The Politics of Popular MovementsIrvin Manuel GonzalezChapter 10 Case Studies:New Deal Rhythm: Hollywood Chorus Girls Get PoliticalAnna Waller"To Exist is to Survive Unfair Choices": The OA and Queer Acts of Protest Bhumi B. PatelOrderly Chaos: Moshing in SLC Punk! Adrian S. A. ManningAsserting Indigenous Agency Beyond Colonial Spatialities through RainbowGlitz’s Burlesque Love Medicine Evangelina MaciasChapter 10: Next Steps and Your Move! 11. Popularizing "American-ness"Tria Blu WakpaChapter 11 Case Studies:Ballet at the Movies or Dancing on the Limits of American-ness: Thalia ZanouAnna LeonRomanticizing the Old South in the Confederate PageantTeresa SimoneExperimenting with Lady J: A Trans Take on Drag J. Davenport, PhDWelcome to America: Reassigning Appropriation through Choreography in Soft Power Laura London Waringer~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ closet disco: a meditationJeremy GuytonChapter 11: Next Steps and Your Move!