B-boyin' and B-girlin'. 1 st Element to go global / mass commodified by screen industries!
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Potential Influences
James Brown (Kool Herc, Bronx!) Kung-Fu movies (Bronx!)
• Lindy Hop
– Hellzapoppin' (1941) scene
• Charleston
• Sammy Davis Jr. “Boogie Woogie”
• Capoeira, Brazilian self-defense dance
• Gymnastics
The Freshest Kids (2002)
• Breaking as industry
• Recuperation!!!!
• Bboying as a response to the music, the break
• 1975, bboying hit streets and Puerto Ricans pick it up
• 1979, disco killed bboying (DJ couldn't cut breaks) and the dance had died off.
• 1981 “breakdancing” erupts (Lincoln Center), dies by '86
Popmaster Fabel
• Physical graffiti, channeled aggression
• B-boying, uprocking, West Coast “funk”= “breakdancing” by media
• Kool Herc, “break boy” (b-boy) and “break girl” (b-girl)
• Style= builds upon prior forms and structures and is an individual's conscious/subconscious flavor added
• Competition and battling CENTRAL to “progression”...testing styles
Popmaster Fabel Cont'd
• Toprock
• Down rock, floor rock or footwork
• Power moves (1980s, spinning became a focus of the media)
• Freezes
• Transitions
• Rocking or uprocking, about humiliation and acting out violence w/out touching
• Cypher battle vs. Judge battle; Style heads vs. Power heads
West Coast “Funk”
• Popularized in early 1980s
• Grounded in locking
• Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force's “Planet Rock” (1982)
– Ali G Indahouse(2002) scene
Banes (2004 [1984])
• Newsweek cover in 1984
• Breaking has two eras:
– 1. Before Media
– 2. After Media ( a. amateur and b. professional)
• Breaking was frozen and legitimated by media (homogenized)
• It is a way to (re)claim the streets (physical graffiti)
• Naming moves=common law copyright
• Sally Banes, "Physical Graffiti: Breaking Is Hard to Do", Village Voice, April 23, 1981.