To those who knew it before it was tagged with the name breakdancing, to those still involved in the scene that they will always know as b-boying, the tradition is alive and, well, spinning.' 'Breakdancing may have died, but the b-boy, one of four original elements of hip hop (also included: the MC, the DJ, and the graffiti artist) lives on. 'Maybe what Legs is doing is saying 'I want to reeducate the marketplace and make them see that everything that came before was 'breakdancing' and what's going on now is 'b-boying.' And it's all under my control and auspices and whim and whatever.' And so it's a cleansing it's like an etymological purging.But it's smart, because it's a paradigm shift in which he now is not just a player but is a kingmaker. by the time the media got a hold of it in like '81, '82, it became 'break-dancing' and I even got caught up calling it break-dancing too.' 'When I first learned about the dance in 1977 it was called b-boying. Freeze' Lemberger, hip-hop historian Fab 5 Freddy, and rappers Big Daddy Kane and Tech N9ne use the term 'b-boy'. or b-girls, what you call break girls.' In addition, co-founder of Rock Steady Crew Santiago 'Jo Jo' Torres, Rock Steady Crew member Marc 'Mr. Frosty Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew says, 'we were known as b-boys', and hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa says, 'b-boys, what you call break boys. :вЂЉ61 B-boy London of the New York City Breakers and filmmaker Michael Holman refer to these dancers as 'breakers'. For those immersed in hip-hop culture, the term 'breakdancer' may be used to disparage those who learn the dance for personal gain rather than for commitment to the culture. Most breakdancing pioneers and practitioners prefer the terms 'b-boy', 'b-girl', and/or 'breaker' when referring to these dancers. DJ Kool Herc has commented that the term 'breaking' was 1970s slang for 'getting excited', 'acting energetically' or 'causing a disturbance'. The obvious connection of the term 'breaking' is to the word ' breakbeat'. The terms 'b-boy' ('break-boy'), 'b-girl' ('break-girl'), and 'breaker' were the original terms used to describe the dancers who performed to DJ Kool Herc's breakbeats. :вЂЉ60 The dance itself is called 'breaking' by rappers such as KRS-One, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and Darryl McDaniels of Run-D.M.C.

The term 'breakdancing' has become an umbrella term that includes California-based dance styles such as popping, locking, and electric boogaloo, in addition to the New York-based b-boying. Some enthusiasts consider 'breakdancing' an ignorant, and even pejorative, term, due to the media's exploitation of the art form, while others use it to derogatorily refer to studio-trained dancers that can perform the moves but who do not live a 'b-boy lifestyle', :вЂЉ61 and accuse the media of displaying a simplified version of the dance that focused on 'tricks' instead of culture. Instead of the original term 'b-boying' ('break-boying'), the mainstream media promoted the art form as 'breakdancing', the term by which it came to be generally known. Although the term 'breakdance' is frequently used to refer to the dance in popular culture and in the mainstream entertainment industry, 'b-boying' and 'breaking' were the original terms and are preferred by the majority of the pioneers and most notable practitioners. ДЄ practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-girl, breakdancer or breaker. By the late 1970s, the dance had begun to spread to other communities and was gaining wider popularity at the same time, the dance had peaked in popularity among African Americans and Puerto Ricans. Horne), OG BGirl - Darlene Rivers, 'Puppet' (William 'Billy Bill' Waring), Darryl Solomon (The Mad Hatter), Kurtis Blow, Troy Harewood, Lil Cesar Rivas, Shabba-Doo, and Puerto Rican youth in the early 1970s. Breakdancing is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in hip-hop, funk, soul music and breakbeat music, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns.Д«reakdancing was created by Trixie (Lauree Myers), RIP Wallace D, Dancing Doug (Douglas Colon), A1 Bboy Sasa, DJ Clark Kent (Tyrone Smith), The Legendary Smith Twins, The Zulu Kings and Cholly Rock (Anthony G.

While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. A breakdancer performing in Cologne, Germany, 2017Д«reakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States.

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