Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok

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 ho...