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Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships
Naomi Macalalad Bragin · University of Michigan Press · 2024
Why this source matters
The single best scholarly account of the California street-dance lineage (boogaloo, strutting, robotting, turfing) and how Oakland turf dancing descends from it; free full text under an open licence, so it can be ingested immediately.