break dancing

break dancing
break dancing 1982, but the style itself evolved late 1970s in South Bronx, and breakdown "a riotous dance, in the style of the negroes" is recorded from 1864. The reference in the modern case is to the rhythmic break in a pop-dance song (see BREAK (Cf. break) (n.)), which the DJs isolated and the dancers performed to.

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