The first misunderstanding is a tricky one. It's the result of a neverending argument about the terminology of hip-hop, and a lot of hardliners stating 'breaking is hip-hop' without giving the context ...

When you devote yourself to a discourse, the entire discourse needs to be addressed. My area of interest, pedagogy and writing, is in Hip Hop, with an emphasis on Christian Hip Hop. I have, and remain ...

To the tune of a Miles Davis trumpet solo, Menno van Gorp is stepping up his training ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics. The jazz musician has been an influential figure in van Gorp’s breakdance ...

For the first time in Olympics history, breakdance – the hip-hop dance style that grew out of New York City in the 1970s – willl take centre stage at the Paris Olympic Games this summer. To mark the ...

On a late Thursday afternoon, I find several youth and young children taking part in free breakdance classes under the auspices of Imagination Circle Limited at the Economic and Community Development ...

In Paris this summer, breakdancing, or “breaking”, will move from the streets to the stadium as it debuts as an Olympic sport. The street dance form that first took the world by storm in the 1980s is ...

In 1984 loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television making him a local hero The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his towns breakdance ...

The term hip-hop in its original meaning stands for a cultural movement that consists of the traditional four elements – breaking (widely known as breakdance), writing (graffiti), MCing (rap) and ...