In the South Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance began to emerge and anyone could do it. It didn't require much, maybe a piece of cardboard. Breaking, also known as breakdancing, was named after ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The highlight of the street dance festival “Motion/Matter” at the Perelman Performing Arts Center came at the end: an all-styles ...

A genre essential, Jonathan Abrams tells the story of five decades of hip-hop using over three hundred interviews conducted over three years with the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both ...

Questlove at the Empire State Building in March. “So much of hip-hop is a reflection of pain, even the joyful parts,” he writes in his new book. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Empire State Realty ...

Theorizing hip hop dance -- African diaspora -- Feminist re-view of hip hop dance -- Theorizing hip hop dance and consumption -- Furthering globalization and capital formation -- Hip hop dance ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...