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Exploitation era (1981–Mid 1985) The Winter Season of b-boying
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or music The Golden Age of b-boying (1973–1980) - B-boying wasn't the first street dance genre, it was just another one in a line of others that have come before. This is the period of its beginnings as an exclusive underground art form yet to be shared with the majority of the rest of the world.
1973:
August 11
  DJ Kool Herc did his first(?) jam on the first floor recreation room of his apartment, the 18-floor General Sedgwick House/Towers (1520 Sedgwick Ave, Bronx, NYC), for his sister's birthday.
Nearly every jam that he DJ's for thereafter are frequented by youths who would react to the break beats that Herc created, laying some foundation for the birth of b-boying...eventually Kool Herc would call them "b-boys", thus the birth of the term.
November 12
Afrika Bambaataa (of Stevenson HS) establishes Universal Zulu Nation. Original bboy crew, Zulu Kings were also officially formed.
1974:
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 Boogaloo Sam develops popping and what would later be known as boogaloo style, in Fresno, CA.
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June (Day?)
At an art show in Times Square, Fab 5 Freddy meets Charlie Ahearn at a massage parlor there. They talk, and soon Fred & Charlie began going to the South Bronx together to develop the film that would be called WILD STYLE.
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