Serving as an introduction to hip-hop dance studies, this handbook provides fresh voices and perspectives on dance and its role in hip-hop culture.
Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is currently serving as the President of IASPM-Canada and the Editor of IASPM Journal, the members' journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She is a past Chair of PoP Moves Americas, a network of popular dance scholars.
Imani Kai Johnson is an interdisciplinary-trained Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. She is also founder and chair of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference series and author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop (OUP, 2022). She currently resides in Long Beach, CA.