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The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 13 Jun 2023 03:29:20
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up

Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian, "The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up "
English | ISBN: 1501394312 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 7 MB

The untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world, with around one million participants in this dynamic, multifaceted artform – and, as of 2024, Olympic sport. Yet, despite its global reach and nearly 50-year history, stories of breaking's origins 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.



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