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Foundation
Joseph G. Schloss
其他書名
B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
出版
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2009-03-05
主題
Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Music / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop
Performing Arts / Dance / General
Performing Arts / Dance / Popular
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
0195334051
9780195334050
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g4yk37V5N5oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - known as "breakdancing," it is often dismissed as a form of urban acrobatics set to music. In reality, however, b-boying is a deeply traditional and profoundly expressive art form that has been passed down from teacher to student for almost four decades. Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York offers the first serious study of b-boying as both unique dance form and a manifestation of the most fundamental principles of hip-hop culture. Drawing on anthropological and historical research, interviews and personal experience as a student of the dance, Joseph Schloss presents a nuanced picture of b-boying and its social context. From the dance's distinctive musical repertoire and traditional educational approaches to its complex stylistic principles and secret battle strategies, Foundation illuminates a previously unexamined thread in the complex tapestry that is contemporary hip-hop.