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DARK MATTER IN BREAKING CYPHERS: THE LIFE OF AFRICANIST AESTHETICS IN GLOBAL HIP HOP by Imani Kai Johnson. 2023. New York: Oxford University Press. 238 pp., 11 illustrations. $40.99 paper. ISBN: 9780190856700 (print). ISBN: 9780190856694 (hardback). ISBN: 9780190856724 (ePub). doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190856694.001.0001.

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DARK MATTER IN BREAKING CYPHERS: THE LIFE OF AFRICANIST AESTHETICS IN GLOBAL HIP HOP by Imani Kai Johnson. 2023. New York: Oxford University Press. 238 pp., 11 illustrations. $40.99 paper. ISBN: 9780190856700 (print). ISBN: 9780190856694 (hardback). ISBN: 9780190856724 (ePub). doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190856694.001.0001.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2025

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 2-3 , August 2024 , pp. 208 - 210
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Dance Studies Association

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Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. 1998. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.Google Scholar
Johnson, Imani Kai. 2014. “From Blues Women to B-Girls: Performing Badass Femininity.” Women and Performance 24 (1): 15–28.CrossRefGoogle Scholar