{"title":"Books by Trevor Boffone","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780197577684","title":"Renegades","description":"Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media app that lets users record short dance challenge videos before cross-sharing them on different social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat. Author Trevor Boffone interrogates the roles that Dubsmash, social media, and hip hop music and dance play in youth identity formation in the United States. These so-called Dubsmashers privilege their cultural and individual identities through the use of performance strategies that reinforce notions of community and social media interconnectedness in the digital age. These young people create a sense of identity and community that informs and is informed by hip hop culture. As such, the book argues that Dubsmash serves as a fundamental space to fashion contemporary youth identity. To do this, the book re-appropriates the term \"Renegade\" to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226306654581,"sku":"9780197577684","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197577684_6795fcea-849c-4bba-a964-2d3e97f08f7b.jpg?v=1786011474"},{"product_id":"9780197743676","title":"TikTok Broadway","description":"Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the concept of the musical itself? TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age takes readers inside the world of TikTok Broadway, where fans create, expand, and canonize musical theatre through viral videos. It argues that TikTok democratizes musical theatre fan cultures and spaces, creating a new canon of musical theatre that reflects the preferences and passions of the fans. Readers will also see how TikTok Broadway influences other aspects of U.S. popular culture, from Broadway shows to TV adaptations.From Six and Beetlejuice to Wicked and Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, this book covers the most popular and innovative musical theatre content on TikTok. Author Trevor Boffone, a musical theatre scholar and a TikTok creator, shows how fans use the app to express their love for musical theatre, and how they collaborate to produce original works, such as Bridgerton: The Musical. TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age shows how the app puts power in the hands of the fans.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226359148917,"sku":"9780197743676","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197743676_162aee24-ad7d-4c28-a595-30738d335005.jpg?v=1786011101"},{"product_id":"yassified-shakespeare","title":"Yassified Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘This exhilarating tour of meme, yass, RuPaul and drag embraces Shakespearean postmodernity in all its inauthentic authenticity.’ \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eEmma Smith,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Oxford, UK.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo ‘yassify’: to ‘glamify’ – often using digital filters – making it Queerer in the process\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYassification: to make something ‘larger than life’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYassification distorts reality and its satire lies in its self-referential nature: there needs to be an original object for comparison to the yassified version. Enter: William Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Harold Perrineau’s turn as Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann’s \u003ci\u003eRomeo + Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e to the ‘ShakesQueer’ episode of \u003ci\u003eRuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c\/i\u003e, Shakespeare’s cultural capital is often served hand-in-hand with drag aesthetics to today’s audiences. Exploring the intersection between Shakespeare and drag in contemporary American culture, termed here as ‘ShaxDrag’, the book interrogates the specific role Shakespeare plays in American popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether it be Queer-coded iterations of Shakespeare’s persona by performers on Broadway or at a Renaissance Faire, or performances of Shakespearean content by Drag Queens, the authors contend that ShaxDrag is used to subvert white, Eurocentric ideas about high culture, education, language and taste. 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