An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.

This paper examines the vibrant subculture of street dance (dance styles that have evolved outside the studio) in Singapore. It conceptualises the social space of street dance, through processes of construction, consumption and contestation. This paper pays homage to the social order that dancers re...

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Main Author: Wong, Elke Pao Yi.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-442702019-12-10T12:17:52Z An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore. Wong, Elke Pao Yi. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Premchand Dommaraju DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology This paper examines the vibrant subculture of street dance (dance styles that have evolved outside the studio) in Singapore. It conceptualises the social space of street dance, through processes of construction, consumption and contestation. This paper pays homage to the social order that dancers respect; an order they have established and continued to shape. It examines the methods dancers use to establish territories within physical and aural space. It also traces the flows between the local-global street dance landscape; a platform where channels of ideology, knowledge and talent are created and produced. Most of the research is situated at *SCAPE, a spanking-new shopping mall in Singapore, and the latest home to local street dance subculture. Bachelor of Arts 2011-05-31T07:52:53Z 2011-05-31T07:52:53Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44270 en Nanyang Technological University 40 p. application/pdf
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Wong, Elke Pao Yi.
An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.
description This paper examines the vibrant subculture of street dance (dance styles that have evolved outside the studio) in Singapore. It conceptualises the social space of street dance, through processes of construction, consumption and contestation. This paper pays homage to the social order that dancers respect; an order they have established and continued to shape. It examines the methods dancers use to establish territories within physical and aural space. It also traces the flows between the local-global street dance landscape; a platform where channels of ideology, knowledge and talent are created and produced. Most of the research is situated at *SCAPE, a spanking-new shopping mall in Singapore, and the latest home to local street dance subculture.
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title An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.
title_short An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.
title_full An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.
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title_full_unstemmed An insider’s guide to the street dance subculture in Singapore.
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