Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

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J. Lorenzo Perillo (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)

Choreographing in Color

Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

J. Lorenzo Perillo (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 October 2020

Contemporary dance; Rap & Hip-Hop; Cultural studies; Black & Asian studies; Hispanic & Latino studies

"In Choreographing in Color , J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists, choreographers, and organizers, Perillo shifts attention away from the predominant Philippine neoliberal and U.S. imperialist emphasis on Filipinos as superb mimics, heroic migrants, model minorities, subservient wives, and natural dancers and instead asks: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate the violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop?

Employing critical race, feminist, and performance studies, Perillo analyzes the conditions of possibility that gave rise to Filipino dance phenomena across viral, migrant, theatrical, competitive, and diplomatic performance in the Philippines and diaspora. Advocating for serious engagements with the dancing body, Perillo rethinks a staple of Hip-Hop's regulation, the ""euphemism,"" as a mode of social critique for understanding how folks have engaged with both racial histories of colonialism and gendered labor migration. Figures of euphemism - the zombie, hero, robot, and judge - constitute a way of seeing Filipino Hip-Hop as contiguous with a multi-racial repertoire of imperial crossing, thus uncovering the ways Black dance intersects Filipino racialization and reframing the ongoing, contested underdog relationship between Filipinos and U.S. global power. Choreographing in Color therefore reveals how the Filipino dancing body has come to be, paradoxically, both globally recognized and indiscernible."

By: J. Lorenzo Perillo (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance University of Hawai'i Mānoa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780190054281
ISBN 10: 019005428X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Choreographing in Color Chapter 1: Zombies and Prisoner Rehabilitation Chapter 2: Heroes and Filipino Migrations Chapter 3: Robots and Affirmative Choreographies Chapter 4: Judges and International Competitions Conclusion: Hip-Hop Ambassadors and Conventions Notes Bibliography Index

J. Lorenzo Perillo, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i, M=anoa. J. Lorenzo Perillo is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i, M=anoa.

Reviews for Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

Choreographing in Color is a milestone in Filipino Studies, cultural studies and the transnational study of dance as a world-making process. Perillo looks at the multi-sited creativity of Filipino dancers and dance cultures as they cross cultural, national, and ethno-racial borders. Sensitive to the colonial and postcolonial histories of Filipinos and the Philippines, this book advances a capacious and complex picture of dance's exuberant and critical role in a globalizing world. -- Martin F. Manalansan, University of Minnesota