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The freshest kids
- Title
- The freshest kids / QD3 Entertainment presents ; a Brotherhood Films production ; a film by Israel ; executive producer, Quincy "QD3" Jones III ; produced & directed by Israel.
- Publication
- [Los Angeles, CA] : QD3 Entertainment ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, ©2002.
- Supplementary Content
- Internet Movie Database review
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving image | Use in library | MUSDVD767 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Looks at the history and phenomenon of b-boys. Talks about the originators and the innovators, what the forces were that inspired break dancing and made it into the art form of today. Includes segments of many performances by a variety of performers and interviews.
- A break is a musical interlude during a song, and the dance style called breaking or b-boying on the streets began in the 1970s in (arguably), the Bronx, NY. DJ Kool Herc noticed that when he played break beats between songs, dancers reacted with their most impressive dance moves. He christened those dancers "b-boys" and "b-girls" or "break-boys" and "break-girls." The Black and Latino communities of NYC invented early hip-hop dance styles known variously as toprock, uprock, or breaking, while locking, popping, and electric boogaloo arose among Black Californians. This film presents an oral history of the form, using archival footage and interviews with founding dancers from both coasts
- Alternative Title
- Fresh, the freshest kids : a history of the b-boy
- History of the b-boy
- Subject
- Break dancing
- Break dancing > History
- Break dancing > United States > History
- Hip-hop > United States > History
- Dance > Folklore
- Break dancing > Histoire
- Break dancing > États-Unis > Histoire
- Hip-hop > États-Unis > Histoire
- Dance
- Hip-hop
- New York (N.Y.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- California > Los Angeles
- New York (State) > New York
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Documentary videos.
- Dance films.
- Documentary films.
- Folklore.
- History.
- Nonfiction films.
- Dance.
- Documentaires.
- Films de danse.
- Films autres que de fiction.
- Note
- Special features: Music videos (17 min.); Uncut B-boy battles (34 min.); B-boy spotlight (15 min.); Interviews (16 min.); The hand of hip hop (6 min.); Highlight reel (30 sec.); Gallery [slide show] (2 min.).
- Credits (note)
- Editor, Joel Watson ; music supervisor, William "Rhandi" Bannister ; 16mm cinematographer, Cristos Moisides ; cameras, Ilan Laks, Steve Rees, Adam Bachenheimer [and others] ; original score by QD3, Mr. Wiggles, Femi ; archival footage by Henry Chalfant & Michael Holman.
- Audience (note)
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- System Details (note)
- DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround, DTS 5.1.
- Contents
- Introduction -- B-boys -- Hip hop -- Kool Herc -- Break -- 1st B-boys -- Foundation -- Latin godfathers -- Birth of rock steady -- Wild style -- West coast -- Media explosion -- And by 1986 they tried to dead it -- Rap music and big business -- Resurgence -- New fresh kids -- B-boy events -- Rock steady anniversary -- Breakin' through -- International heads -- B-boyology -- Rockin' steady -- End credits.
- LCCN
- 014381164725
- OCLC
- ocm51577091
- 51577091
- SCSB-9182546
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries