“Bankhead Bounce”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Bankhead Bounce is a dance that originated in a neighborhood on the west side of Atlanta known as Bankhead.^[1] The dance was popularized by a song named "Wassup Wassup" by rapper L. (Diamond) Atkins, featuring D-Roc that was released in 1995. Also within the same year, rap group Outkast released the song "Benz or Beamer" music video with the Bankhead bounce in it and from the New Jersey Drive soundtrack in 1995. The dance is performed by moving one's shoulders up and down with arms bent toward the chest. Throughout the following years, the dance went mainstream with other popular music artists doing the dance.

The Creation and Background

The discovery of the dance occurred when Kevin Lee (music manager) went to a night club called Bounce, in Bankhead, Atlanta.^[2] Bankhead is known for its rough neighborhoods and other dances that were created in such neighborhoods were "The Snap Dance", "Stank Legg" from Texas and the most famous of these dances, "The Tootsee Roll" from Orlando, Florida. Most of these dances were created in night clubs or by kids/adults that wanted to stay out of trouble in their bad area neighborhoods.

The Rise To Fame

The dance became mainstream and even more popular with the 1995 MTV Music Video Awards performance by Michael Jackson. The dance is and was performed by many other artists such as, the dancers at the end of Patti Labelle's music video for the song "When You Talk About Love". Also, other artists that have done the dance were TLC, Ciara, A-Town Players, etc.^[1]

Culture

Other than musical artists performing the dance, it has become entwined in dance-fitness routines made popular by Atlanta-based African American dancers.^[3] Bankhead Bounce became known in Atlanta’s African-American culture due to choreographer Rennie Harris who has worked with the likes of Run-DMC.^[4]

Influence

With hip-hop being used for self-expression in Black neighborhoods, dance is also used for the same thing or used as a sign of power; even as the people of Africa and other cultures use dance to tell a story or to just communicate with each other. With the history of bringing people together, dances have been created in black neighborhoods that are considered to be poor, depressed areas. "People who've moved from other places for educational and economic opportunities-along with the established black society; and there's the 'hood', which faces the same challenges that inner cities face everywhere"(McNulty,2000. pg.14).^[5]

References

1. ^¹{{cite book |last=Hess |first=Mickey |title=Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide |isbn=9780313343216 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2009 |pages=469}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/how-coach-k-guides-atlantas-hip-hop-stars|title=How Coach K Guides Atlanta’s Hip-Hop Stars|last=Sanneh|first=Kelefa|date=December 18, 2017|website=The New Yorker|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.howardcc.edu/docview/200035094?accountid=35779|title=Fit and Funky|last=Towns|first=Gail|date=December 30, 1997|website=proQuest|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=December 4, 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.howardcc.edu/docview/307977820?accountid=35779|title=Body And Soles; Aspiring Hip-Hoppers Put Their Best Feet Forward|last=Iverem|first=Esther|date=October 5, 1996|website=The Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=December 4, 2018}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.howardcc.edu/docview/1612357601?accountid=35779|title=Crank That Thang: Contextualizing Black Masculinities and Hip-Hop Dance in the South from 2000-2010|last=Nichols|first=Jason|date=Summer 2014|website=Western Journal of Black Studies; Pullman Vol. 38, Iss. 2|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=December 4, 2018}}