I don't think breakdancing or anything like it belongs in the academic world at all. I also have no idea what "cultural studies" are at all, as the name is so vague. The idea of the government getting involved in "promoting breakdancing" is ludicrous. Dance traditions come and go in a neverending flow of organic culture all over the world. It is no one's job to intervene in that.
"The way modern Cultural Studies engages with human cultures is inappropriately authoritative in nature." This is the same thought process used by men who condescendingly tell women what their "essential nature" is, and men dressing and acting like clowns and saying they have become better women than actual women. I don't believe any culture "owns" a resource like breakdancing, but a culture owns the history. One can tell a story through dance, like ballet, even if one isn't Russian. Raygun, for all her academic work, does not seem to understand the history or the development of breakdancing or, likely, any dance. On top of that she's not an athlete. The 2 gold medalists were wonderful, and neither one hailed from the urban poor.
I am more interested in Weber’s warning that clearly was neglected. Cultural studies is probably the most politically inclined discipline after poli science itself.
Well, when I first saw her performance I thought it was a joke. Then we realised no it is the Olympics. Well the Olympics is a total disaster from way to go now. They have polices that now include men to compete as women (dress up time) and then they showcase a dance/street-movement with a women who performed like Chris Lilley’s alter ego Mr G the drama teacher. Is she trying to change break dancing and move it towards Pilates perhaps with a bit of dance expression? Who would know, all I know is that she summed up the Olympics for me - woke and full of blokes. As for her PhD well words escape me.
Tempests in teapots are always sweet -"forgetting any concepts of racial privilege or cultural appropriation" - about breakdancing. I hope there was no pop-locking - sanity would be shattered, forgetfulness rising to the level of a national terminal Alzheimers.
I remember reading something like this 20 years ago - Madonna Vogued! Then 40 years ago about Bo Derek - those cornrows! That appropriation! - and of course something like that about music 60 years prior - Elvis Presley as the quintessence of black cultural appropriation - Blues!
My question is simple - in the 80's I asked if I should call the Italian Embassy for permission to serve "white-appropriated" Spaghetti and Meatballs. I did so want to be culturally sensitive.
I suppose today either Barak Obama, Beyonce, Oprah or - well I'm sure - Kamala Harris have set up a cultural appropriation approval website where you submit an appropriation and get an approval certificate you can download to your Apple Wallet and submit to critics as proof of something.
Beyonce showed me her ethnic German Texano music appropriation QR code for her recent album, so I know these things exist.
I don't think breakdancing or anything like it belongs in the academic world at all. I also have no idea what "cultural studies" are at all, as the name is so vague. The idea of the government getting involved in "promoting breakdancing" is ludicrous. Dance traditions come and go in a neverending flow of organic culture all over the world. It is no one's job to intervene in that.
"The way modern Cultural Studies engages with human cultures is inappropriately authoritative in nature." This is the same thought process used by men who condescendingly tell women what their "essential nature" is, and men dressing and acting like clowns and saying they have become better women than actual women. I don't believe any culture "owns" a resource like breakdancing, but a culture owns the history. One can tell a story through dance, like ballet, even if one isn't Russian. Raygun, for all her academic work, does not seem to understand the history or the development of breakdancing or, likely, any dance. On top of that she's not an athlete. The 2 gold medalists were wonderful, and neither one hailed from the urban poor.
I am more interested in Weber’s warning that clearly was neglected. Cultural studies is probably the most politically inclined discipline after poli science itself.
Well, when I first saw her performance I thought it was a joke. Then we realised no it is the Olympics. Well the Olympics is a total disaster from way to go now. They have polices that now include men to compete as women (dress up time) and then they showcase a dance/street-movement with a women who performed like Chris Lilley’s alter ego Mr G the drama teacher. Is she trying to change break dancing and move it towards Pilates perhaps with a bit of dance expression? Who would know, all I know is that she summed up the Olympics for me - woke and full of blokes. As for her PhD well words escape me.
Tempests in teapots are always sweet -"forgetting any concepts of racial privilege or cultural appropriation" - about breakdancing. I hope there was no pop-locking - sanity would be shattered, forgetfulness rising to the level of a national terminal Alzheimers.
I remember reading something like this 20 years ago - Madonna Vogued! Then 40 years ago about Bo Derek - those cornrows! That appropriation! - and of course something like that about music 60 years prior - Elvis Presley as the quintessence of black cultural appropriation - Blues!
My question is simple - in the 80's I asked if I should call the Italian Embassy for permission to serve "white-appropriated" Spaghetti and Meatballs. I did so want to be culturally sensitive.
I mean Italians rose from violent lynchings in the American South https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings#:~:text=The%201891%20New%20Orleans%20lynchings,mass%20lynching%20in%20American%20history and Urban Violence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia#:~:text=There%20are%20five%20main%20New,crime%20in%20the%20United%20States to revive ancient ethnic ululating traditions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_opera after the great diaspora and become international superstars of song as well as purveyors of quaint ethnic leatherwear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gucci
I suppose today either Barak Obama, Beyonce, Oprah or - well I'm sure - Kamala Harris have set up a cultural appropriation approval website where you submit an appropriation and get an approval certificate you can download to your Apple Wallet and submit to critics as proof of something.
Beyonce showed me her ethnic German Texano music appropriation QR code for her recent album, so I know these things exist.