Prep

• Calvert, John. 2014. ‘“We are in the club, dancing, with no intention to stop”: The Secret World Of Japanese Footwork’. Noisey, 14 October. keywords: cultural appropriation;
• Video: ‘Sherelle | LDN: Bass & Percs Special’ (7 February 2019). This crackling Boiler Room DJ set made this young London DJ into an international hotcake. There’s much to remark upon here, including the miscegenation of various Afrodiasporic sample-based musical genres (footwork and UK jungle, primarily); the curious cross-cultural dissemination of footwork, a sound that’s not even well known domestically outside of Chicago; and the increasing significance of identity politics on the international club scene.

Zoom Session

1. Review: Midterms
2. Coda: ‘I Am the Queen’

For Next Time

• Tricia Rose, ‘Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile’, in Forman and Neal (2004). keywords: dialogic criticism; feminism; heteronormativity; intersectionality (pp. 303-304); signifying;
• Audio:‘Women’s Rap Renaissance’, Switched on Pop 198 (8 December 2020)