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Put Quotes (and site where they're from) On This Page 3 Films : Flashdance, Breakin', and Beat Street "Because of these films, breakdancing made a crossover from black and Hispanic ghetto kids to middle-class kids in the suburbs." pg 189 __Black Dance In America__

1. "Like all art the art of the 1980s not only reflected the personal, but political in its many forms." (__The 1980s__ pg. 196)

2. "In fact, it is hard to imagine break dancing ever coming into being without boom boxes." (__Black Dance in America__ pg. 188)

3. "The turn table was an instrument rather than simply a conduit for the music--[it] was the single biggest development in popular music in the final decades of the twentieth century." (__A Century of Dance__ pg. 230)

4. "As early as 1969, he saw the possibilities for acrobatic dancing to provide healthy competition among street gangs. He called for a 'break' in the usual street warfare and suggested the gangs fight with steps rather than with weapons." (__Black Dance in America__ pg. 188)

5. " Although hip hop culture has historically provided a space for disenfranchized youth of colour, including young women, to resist oppression." Source: Representin' in Cyberspace: Sexual Scripts, Self-Definition, and Hip Hop Culture in Black American Adolescent Girls' Home Pages Carla E. Stokes //Culture, Health & Sexuality// Vol. 9, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2007), pp. 169-184 Published by: __[|Taylor & Francis, Ltd.] __ Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4005517