Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS YOUNG In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the ...

The Sonoma Community Center will transform its back patio into an open-air dance club July 11, complete with classic ’80s ...

As hip-hop culture started to take hold in New Orleans in the early 1980s, it wasn’t just the new music that was influencing locals. A number of young Black New Orleanians started adapting the dance ...

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 ...

Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...

"As long as the music is fast, as long as the music is good enough for people to dance to, with a nice hook on it, [it could achieve mass appeal.]" — Rob Base, explaining the crossover success of his ...