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 * BREAKDANCE OF THE 70's AND 80's**
 * Purpose:** How the 1970s-80s dance reflected the economic, political, and social culture of the time.
 * (Rough) Thesis: Breakdancing had a great impact on music and dance but not on the conditions that it originally rose out of.**

1. Overview: Breakdancing: •What are we gonna talk about? -Welcome to my story it's about break dancing.

2. Rewind: Before: •Discuss the Urban issues of this time (African American, gangs, drugs, violence) -What was the world like before breakdancing? •60s Quick movie snip-its: -Riots in Chicago, death of MLK & Kennedy, death of the dreams of African Americans •DJ Cool Herc + Disco: the beginning of disk jockeying moves into rap/hip hop/breakdancing etc. -Creation of __boom box__ and __turn tables__ -Possible Hendrix quote?
 * Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner: Believed in the possibility of America but not where it is right now. The song is a mix of those feelings.***

2. Narrow in: The Bronx: •The Bronx: typical Black Urban America -What is different in the Bronx? -Why here? -What are the conditions that make it rise up here? •Set up the origin of break dancing •Status symbols: How big is your box? Your chains/bling? -You live on the street/projects so you show yourself by what you wear, essentially it is how you represent yourself. -You took your wealth/success/badge of honors with you because going home was not impressive.

3. Define it: What is breakdancing? •Clips, Positions, Moves, etc. •"You got served!" -Go and have a dance off to prove yourself rather than prove yourself by fighting. -Not only showed athletic ability and strength but at the end you strike a pose that shows your disdain for the other group. •The subculture: what is it its place, its role?
 * Any time a subculture becomes a popular culture it no longer is what it was, and so a new subculture emerges.***

4. Expand out: Impact! •Subculture expands to a national level/view point -Bands like Run DMC are given a nationwide and international platform to draw attention to their roots, their cause, their problem. •Even though it died it is still present in hip hop etc. (Nowadays they show their anger, street cred, etc. by violent aggressive lyrics.) •Baltimore Mayor Curt Shmoke: tried to regain ground in Urban inner cities. -More attention to economic oportunity •Urban changes? Economic changes? Dance changes? Musical changes? (Tie in beginning)


 * THINK HOURGLASS MODEL!**