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Anna's Page: BOOKS TO LOOK FOR: Village Voice Melody Maker

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 * "**According to Wikipedia, "DJ Kool Herc apparently coined the term [|B-boy] in 1969 in New York City. During performances where Herc was DJing, he would yell out "B-boys go down!" which cued the dancers to begin breakdancing." B-boying is also known as breaking. The term breakdancing is more well known, but it is a term coined by the media and not by the movement itself.**"**

Source:[| http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=283830&rel_no=1]
 * "**This style of dance has many influences, from funk drumming, James Brown, African dance, Capoeira, tap, flash style as done superbly by the [|Nicholas Brothers], Native American dance, Latin dance, kung fu and gymnastics.**"**

UNREAL websight about Afrika Bimbaattaa. Includes many pictures and a lengthy passage about him/origin of breakdancing. []

"By 1975, the South Bronx was the most devastated urban landscape in the United States. The three community districts that comprise the core of the South Bronx had fallen 57 percent in population from 383,000 in 1970 to 166,000 in 1980, which has to rival the greatest short term population loss in any urban setting with the possible exception of war's devastation." [|Bronx Economic Background Info] Decent sight on the background of what went wrong with the Bronx' Economy and how it was fixed.

AWESOME SIGHT: •"At a time when rap music had become associated with gang violence and drug use in the minds of its critics, Afrika Bambaataa's voice and history reminded audiences that hip-hop culture--of which rap is one facet--started as an effort to pull vulnerable inner-city youths away from the dangers of gang membership." •Gary Jardim wrote in the //Village Voice// in 1984. "Stopping bullets with two turntables isn't about sociology, it's about finding the spirit in the music and learning how to flash it." •"An independent entrepreneur armed with a portable sound system and extensive record collection, the DJ emerged as a new cultural hero in the Bronx in 1975," Hager wrote in the //Village Voice//. •When the //Source// interviewed Flash, Herc, and Bambaataa for a hip-hop retrospective in 1993, the writer designated these three as "the founding fathers of hip-hop music." DJ Flash, Kool Herc, Kool Dee, Flash, Bambaataa   Ian Pye called him “ a cornerstone of black street culture ” in //Melody Maker// in 1983 Furthermore, at a time when rap music has become associated with gang violence and drug use in the minds of its critics, Afrika Bambaataa ’ s voice and history remind audiences that hip-hop culture — of which rap is one facet — started as an effort to pull vulnerable inner-city youths away from the dangers of gang membership. In fact, Bambaataa was at the center of that effort, as the press has extensively documented. “ Peacemaker, guidance counselor, spiritual advisor, and purveyor of the music in an adolescent, violenceridden, and educationally-deprived context, Bam is hiphop ’ s great facilitator, ” Gary Jardim wrote in the //Village Voice// in 1984. “ Stopping bullets with two turntables isn ’ t about sociology, it ’ s about finding the spirit in the music and learning how to flash it. ” http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Afrika_Bambaataa.aspx