DANC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dj Kool Herc, B-Boying, Rapping
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B boy independent dancer teacher and choreographer for 18 years. Hip hop culture that breaking sits within it"s a culture rather than an actual dance style. * turn tables ( musical instrumental) mixing cutting and scratching. * visual art: graffiti ( the culture of hip hop) * in the south bronks, robert moses was a developer was building an expressway. * black and latino families were left, poor community. * marginalised people without jobs, gangs started controlling areas, police no longer controlled. * 30,000 buildings burnt to the ground to gain insurance. * trying to get away from aggressive and oppressive circumstance. * no violence at the parties to break away from the lifestyle. * certain part of the record that would go crazy with dance, nationalities (latino and black) influences the break dancing. * gang culture and rival culture, battle dance. * crews started forming, locality where you are from, idea of what the dance should be, philosophy.
