Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Turfing is an improvisation-based dance that defines black street culture in neighborhoods of Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. A form of testimony to disproportionate policing, incarceration, and the deaths of black youth, turfing's local practice persists in counterpoint to the global viral trafficking of hood dance and black performance.
Source: TDR/The Drama Review
DOI: 10.1162/dram_a_00349
Author: Naomi Bragin
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Topic: Arts and Performance Studies
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2054082545