1. B-boyin' and B-girlin'

2. 1st Element to go global / mass commodified by screen industries!

3. Potential Influences James Brown (Kool Herc, Bronx!)
Kung-Fu movies (Bronx!)
Lindy Hop
Hellzapoppin' (1941) scene
Charleston
Sammy Davis Jr. “Boogie Woogie”
Capoeira, Brazilian self-defense dance (later in 1990s)
Gymnastics

4. Popmaster Fabel Physical graffiti, channeled aggression
B-boying, uprocking, West Coast “funk”= “breakdancing” by media
Kool Herc, “break boy” (b-boy) and “break girl” (b-girl)
Style= builds upon prior forms and structures and is an individual's conscious/subconscious flavor added (originality...style)
Competition and battling CENTRAL to “progression”...testing styles
Takes issue with filming, editing, choreography, cipher opens

5. Popmaster Fabel Cont'd Toprock (“drop” the move to the floor)
Down rock, floor rock or footwork
Power moves (1980s, spinning became a focus of the media; it was spectacle and acrobatic)
Freezes
Transitions
Rocking or uprocking, about humiliation and acting out violence w/out touching (Apache Line from Brooklyn)
Cypher battle vs. Judge battle; Style heads vs. Power heads

6. West Coast “Funk” Popularized in early 1980s
Grounded in locking; a dance from 60s/70s
Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force's “Planet Rock” (1982)
Ali G Indahouse(2002) scene

7. Banes (2004 [1984]) Newsweek cover in 1984 Breaking has two eras:
1. Before Media; compete for subcultural capital
2. After Media ( a. amateur and b. professional); compete for capital (prize money, roles in films, etc.)
Breaking was frozen and legitimized by media (homogenized)
It is a way to (re)claim the streets (physical graffiti)
Naming moves=common law copyright
Sally Banes, "Physical Graffiti: Breaking Is Hard to Do", Village Voice, April 23, 1981.

8. B-Girls

9. The Freshest Kids (2002) Breaking as industry Recuperation!!!!
Bboying as a response to the music, the break
1975, bboying hit streets and Puerto Ricans pick it up
1979, disco killed bboying (DJ couldn't cut breaks) and the dance had died off.
1981 “breakdancing” erupts (Lincoln Center), dies by '86