ENTITY · DANCE / MOVE
Out and Bad
Probable
Named dancehall move credited in Bogle-era public dance memory.
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- Dance / move →
- Confidence
- Probable
- Sources
- Gleaner/Observer Bogle retrospectives.
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Male dancers and the effeminacy charge
One side
Acrobatic, stylish male dancing as valid masculine creative artistry
The other
Suspicion that expressive/effeminate movement signals homosexuality
The rise of male dance stars and crews in the 2000s (in the lineage of Bogle/Gerald Levy and the Black Roses Crew, then Ding Dong's Ravers Clavers) sharpened a gender argument: elaborate, fluid, fashion-forward male moves and 'out and bad' styling were read by some in a homophobic dancehall context as effeminate or 'gay', while dancers and scholars argued the moves were a legitimate, hyper-visible form of masculine artistry and inner-city creativity (Jamaica Observer, 'Masculinity and dancehall', 2011; academic work by Patrick Helber). The tension coexisted with dancehall's broader documented homophobia and the international 'Stop Murder Music' controversies.
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