In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

Emmanuel Bates breakdancing at "In The Lab: Evolution of Hip Hop Dance," a summer program for students started by the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on June 15, 2011. The event included break dancers ...

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It’s difficult to know where to begin in approaching a film like Joel Silberg’s 1984 project Breakin’, which proudly conveyed its worthiness in our collective nostalgic zeitgeist, through home ...