Everything Remains Raw: A Linear Discussion of Hip-Hop Dance
by E. Moncell Durden · Villanova University (YouTube)
Forty-minute university lecture tracing hip-hop dance back through Afro-diasporic social dance — the bounce, the get-down, the cypher — showing why the groove precedes the steps. Reframes hip-hop dance as a continuous folkloric lineage, not a 1970s invention.
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