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Author Schloss, Joseph Glenn, author.

Title Foundation : b-boys, b-girls, and hip-hop culture in New York / Joseph G. Schloss
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) : illustrations
Contents "The original essence of the dance" : history, community, and classic b-boy records -- "Getting your foundation" : pedagogy -- "We have to be exaggerated" : aesthetics -- "In the cypher" : b-boy spaces -- "I hate b-boys-- that's why I break" : battling -- From rocking to b-boying : history and mystery
Summary 1. Introduction. 2. Getting Your Foundation: Pedagogy. 3. B-Boy Text: Aesthetics. 4. Crews. 5. I hate b-boys - that's why I break: Battling. 6. Like old folk songs handed down from generation to generation: history, canon, and community in B-boy culture. 7. If Breaking came out of Uprock, then Hip-Hop didn't start in the Bronx: B-boy History. 8. Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Hip Hop gnd
Subject Hip-hop dance -- New York (State) -- New York
Hip-hop -- New York (State) -- New York
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- General.
Hip-hop
Hip-hop dance
Bewegungskultur
Breakdance
Hiphop.
Breakdance.
New York (State) -- New York
New York, NY
Form Electronic book
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