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Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok, by Trevor Boffone Trevor Boffone. Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 167 pages. Jasmine A. Henry Jasmine A. Henry University of Pennsylvania Jasmine A. Henry is an assistant professor of musicology and Wolf Humanities Center fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Black electronic dance music, independent music production, and Afrofuturism. Her current book project focuses on the history of Black urban club music and party cultures in Newark, New Jersey. As a live sound engineer, she has entertained international audiences through her work on critically acclaimed productions such as the Blue Man Group, HBO's The Newsroom, and Broadway's Chicago the Musical. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Media Lab Director at the Newark School of the Arts, where she provided youth from historically marginalized backgrounds with access to music technologies and industry knowledge. Email: email protected Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: email protected Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024) 36 (1): 156–159. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2024.36.1.156 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok, by Trevor Boffone. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2024; 36 (1): 156–159. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2024.36.1.156 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In this current era of viral social media, much of contemporary cultural production caters to Generation Z's proclivity for choreographed dance challenges such as the Renegade and the Mop circulating on apps like TikTok, Dubsmash, and Instagram.1 In Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok, scholar and public educator Trevor Boffone suggests that the cultural practices of Gen Z are "…far more nuanced and relevant than casual observers (read: adults) might typically imagine" (9). Boffone centers the work of Black girl content creators who serve as key agents of hip-hop cultural production. Drawing from theater, performance, gender, hip-hop, and sound studies, he explores how these creators skillfully occupy visual and sonic space on dance platforms to (per)form identity and build supportive digital communities. Through ethnographic case studies, Boffone convincingly argues that the viral social media landscape is a critical, yet undervalued, space to theorize the integral role Black... You do not currently have access to this content.
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