Breaking expectations: Imagined affinities in mediated youth cultures.
This article examines the mediated encounters experienced by participants in hip hop and funk dance styles especially breaking or b-boying/b-girling. It introduces the concept of imagined affinities to describe the spectrum of these encounters, which are enacted through mediated texts, or by travels...
| Publicado en: | Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 449 - 463 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2012
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