Foundation

B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York

Joseph G. Schloss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533405-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Joseph Schloss is the visiting professor at NYU and instructor in music, Baruch College. Author, Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Wesleyan, 2004), recipient of the 2005 book award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. A leader in a new generation of practitioner/scholars writing from their own experience on the ground, Schloss exists simultaneously in the Ivory Tower and on the competitive dance floor, and has won prizes in both arenas.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; COMMUNITY, AND CLASSIC B-BOY RECORDS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.10.2009
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 236 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-533405-1 / 0195334051
ISBN-13	978-0-19-533405-0 / 9780195334050
Zustand	Neuware