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The Birth of Breaking - Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,211
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The Birth of Breaking - Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Hardcover): Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian

The Birth of Breaking - Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Hardcover)

Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian

Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

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Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world today, with an estimated one million participants taking part in this dynamic, multifaceted artform. Yet, despite its global reach and over 40 years of existence, historical treatments of the dance have largely neglected the African Americans who founded it. Dancer and scholar Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian offers, for the first time, a detailed look into the African American beginnings of breaking in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Given the pivotal impact the dance had on hip-hop's formation, this book also challenges numerous myths and misconceptions that have permeated studies of hip-hop culture's emergence. Aprahamian draws on untapped archival material, primary interviews, and detailed descriptions of early breaking to bring this buried history to life, with a particular focus on the early aesthetic development of the dance, the institutional settings in which hip-hop was conceived, and the movement's impact on sociocultural conditions in New York throughout the 1970s. By featuring the overlooked first-hand accounts of over 50 founding b-boys and b-girls, this book also shows how indebted breaking is to African American culture and interrogates the disturbing factors behind its historical erasure.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Release date: July 2023
Authors: Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-9431-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > Contemporary dance
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Rap & hip-hop
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Rap & hip-hop
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
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LSN: 1-5013-9431-2
Barcode: 9781501394317

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