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    GRAFFITI ART AND BREAKING learning Objectives When you have successfully completed this chapter, you will be able to: + Discuss the art of graffiti in the hip hop tradition. + Describe how graffitists were accepted into the world of fine arts and how this affected their work. + Trace the development of b-boying and breakdancing from their African and African American roots. + Understand the importance of the dance-fight traditions in African culture and how they have spread through various locations. Graffiti Art Although DJing started the party culture, graffiti writers had the greatest initial impact on the mainstream public. An important element of hip hop culture, graffiti tagging was adopted from the street gangs to become a means of both asserting self- identity and spreading the hip hop message across the city. ‘The term graffiti typically refers to short, anonymous, unauthorized writing or drawing on a surface that is meant to be seen by the general public. Graffiti can be a slogan, limerick, or epithet scribbled on a bathroom stall—known as latrinalia, Graffiti can also be a scrawl of someone's name or nickname on the side of a build- ing. This form of graffiti is known as tagging because the artist is making his or her presence known and proclaiming his or her identity through a unique mark. Graffiti is always public, visually confrontational, and illegal. Some graflti can also be elab- orate enough to be viewed as an art form. In the hip hop context, stylized lettering, such as bubble letters or interlocking letters, and dramatic color schemes belong to the sophisticated outlaw graffiti artist who referred to their style as writing. These 18 Hart x Art and Breaking sren 9 Geos At ond rt until they received at, ign young pioneers wo! Id not call their work graffiti a 8! ung. and early 19808. Mm the media in the at 1 ca great impact beyond the Bronx in th ‘Why was it that such 3 Bas placed on public and private ppp) years of hip hop cute? Gra peoughout the many boroughs of New Yortc! especially subway CFs 770 ublic transit users this art form eventually coyen and so was seen ad cout. Visual art has the power to capture attention ang almost every cas inside reform, color, statement, purpose and place. Graf viewer ice ao puede the disenfranchised and marginalized inee

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