scholarly journals Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography and Outlaw Culture Among Early Hip-Hop Streetdancers in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imani Kai Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Life Lessons ◽  
Social Choreography ◽  
The Impact

This article closely examines oral histories of b-boys Aby and Kwikstep, b-girl Baby Love, and poppers Cartoon and Wiggles, and the social choreography necessary to navigate the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s that has an indelible link to four core battling principles as articulated by 1970s b-boy Trac2: survivalism, strategizing, nomadism, and illusionism. By comparing and contrasting foundational elements of battling techniques with life lessons about growing up in the Bronx, the comparison signals the impact of “outlaw culture” within hip-hop, and the counterdominant sensibilities taught in battle cyphers.

Crews and Outside Influences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Ewoodzie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Important Form

Chapter 4 adds more empirical evidence about how new actors became part of the scene. More particularly, it explains how actors came together to form DJing and MCing crews, an important form of social organization in the nascent hip hop world. It shows that the number of members in each crew, the required skills and responsibilities of each member of the crew, the styles of their performance, the venues of shows, and attire all came to hold great significance for the internal logic of the emerging entity. Additionally, it examines external factors that shaped conventions. It investigates the significance of performance routines and fashion and the impact of the New York City blackout of 1977. Further, it discuss how the term “hip hop” itself became adopted as the name for the scene, something that, surprisingly, previous historians of hip hop have ignored.

Kindred Spirits

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

In this chapter, the author shares the wisdom and wit of some extraordinary people, the “kindred spirits,” as well as the lessons he has learned from each of them, such as Tony Butler, who made his home in the tunnels of the New York City subway; the photographer Margaret Morton, who took pictures of the structures where many homeless people live in the tunnels and under the bridges of Manhattan; Ethel Mohamed, a seamstress who began to embroider her memories after the death of her Lebanese husband; Moishe Sacks, a retired baker and the unofficial rabbi of the Intervale Jewish Center in the South Bronx; Kewulay Kamara, from whom he learned about how an ancient mythology can shape a way of life far from its indigenous roots; former medicine show doc Fred Bloodgood; the young subway graffiti writer Skeme; and Mae Noell, from whom he learned about publishing, finding your voice, and sticking to your guns. The author concludes by recounting some wonderful expressions he has picked up from his travels.

Direct observation of neighborhood stressors and environmental justice in the South Bronx, New York City

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Maroko ◽  
Rachael Weiss Riley ◽  
Megan Reed ◽  
Mallesha Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
York City ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

The Impact of Customer Loyalty and Restaurant Sanitation Grades on Revisit Intention and the Importance of Narrative Information: The Case of New York Restaurant Sanitation Grading System

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Gyung Kim ◽  
Hyunjoo Yang ◽  
Anna S. Mattila
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
York City ◽  
Letter Grades ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Revisit Intentions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Loyal Customers

New York City launched a restaurant sanitation letter grade system in 2010. We evaluate the impact of customer loyalty on restaurant revisit intentions after exposure to a sanitation grade alone, and after exposure to a sanitation grade plus narrative information about sanitation violations (e.g., presence of rats). We use a 2 (loyalty: high or low) × 4 (sanitation grade: A, B, C, or pending) between-subjects full factorial design to test the hypotheses using data from 547 participants recruited from Amazon MTurk who reside in the New York City area. Our study yields three findings. First, loyal customers exhibit higher intentions to revisit restaurants than non-loyal customers, regardless of sanitation letter grades. Second, the difference in revisit intentions between loyal and non-loyal customers is higher when sanitation grades are poorer. Finally, loyal customers are less sensitive to narrative information about sanitation violations.

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