Could it be that breakdancing started during the war?
I do have a passion for breaking intot he windmill after one too many coffees / red bulls / any excuse, my party piece if you will! What is yours?
Comments welcomed!
Are these the roots of breakdancing?
Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Jim
Message to Admin.
Since my return I have observed the following bigotry being implemented by the blog owners / designers…….:
It appears those who possess their own blogs have the same sized avatars as when they were first introduced.
However, those who do not have their own blog are now on reduced sizes which renders them pointless, not to mention it is blatant blogist behaviour which would be outlawed in any proper PC country (like the UK).
It is pointless to have avatars of reduced size to me (perhaps because I am a fish of advancing years) because they simply cannot be seen.
Svasti had (has) a great design which is now just a tiny blur.
Lib’s paddling legs now look a lopsided view of the Arc de Triomphe.
GIT has this marvellous pic of a grey man (how appropriate, snigger snigger) dressed in evening attire holding champagne in one hand, a cigar in the other, looking down his nose at the camera (Gordon Bennett! What does that tell you?). And more importantly I am now unable to laff at the irony of this small-man-syndrome sufferer with his pompous pic. Great shame….. Never mind, he’s still got the name!
So Jim, you bigot, what have you got to say for yourself?
Oh dear, there was me about to change my avatar to one of Brian May in his heyday, I won’t bother now as clearly the word irony can be used by some but not understood.
Muppet.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary P 1984
IRONY:
Expression of meaning by language of opposite or different tendency; ill timed or perverse arrival of event or circumstance that would in itself be desirable etc etc.
So what is it that you don’t understand then Big Fella?
Please don’t tell us all that you didn’t get your English ‘O’ level….. Surely you passed all your elementary exams?
It’s just so rich!
Snigger snigger snigger snigger snigger snigger snigger arf arf arf snigger!!!
You squint too much fertile,
MOVE AWAY FROM THE SCREEN
MOVE AWAY FROM THE SCREEN
No, I’ll just remove my avatar.
There ain’t no point in it no more.
FF’s right though Jim! I’ve never had a size 2 foot.
Ha. Good post.
Certainly looks familiar steps & elements. Pretty sure musical forms like doo-wop, be-bop & jazz both in terms of musical elements & accompanying dance elements have, to some extent, informed & evolved into breakdancing & the musical form of hip-hop.
Hip-hop (not just the music, but MC’ing, DJ’ing, graffiti, breakdancing), for me, is amazing & even more so when you consider it evolved out of the concrete jungle of the Bronx, NYC, in the 1970s. An incredible flourish & explosion of creativity across the arts & all from a crumbling city-scape (‘Broken glass everywhere. People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care. I can’t take the smell, I can’t take the noise.’ The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five).
But, undoubtedly its kernel of origin had disparate roots from across previous black American art forms & cultures. And maybe even Russian Kossack dancers circa WWI?
A stepping stone in the development must have been Mr James Brown. His early rap song, an ode to heroin, although the track name escapes me now, was not as in you face as the more modern rap is but must have gone some way to laying the foundation, hence his work was so extensively sampled by modern hip hop performers. Some of his dance moves must have been precursors as well.
Agreed JB played his part…
INNIT?
Surely all modern music can be traced back to the slaves in the US, and they called it BLUES.
Clapton, Led Zepplin and many others admit to Blues influence
Well said Mr Boden, Blues was a major influence of a lot of modern music.
Yo Gareth.
How many modern versions of this original are there.
Answers on a postcard please
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hqGu-leFc
Jim you must of heard my favourite track on the Butchers Arms juke-box.
So here it is george thorogood and the destroyers
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAcBCGOdDTo
Remember that one well Bill!
Here ia a betterer version
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql9UBMZf_sE&feature=related
a lots of “papo cabeça” on this post!!:P
the guys are doing great! strong legs moving with grace and flexibility! the song was made for them!:)
Absolutely right about the Blues.
Of course the roots (excuse the pun) are in the slave gangs of America, singing for salvation in the fields.
A period the Americans would probably now rather forget.
Below a classic from the period, which many you should recognise after Moby used it to great effect in Natural Blues
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9SENzRLk_M