B-boyin' and B-girlin'

1 st Element to go global / mass commodified by screen industries!

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.

B-Girls