The document traces the origins and evolution of breakdancing from its roots in the 1920s through several seminal styles and periods including the Cakewalk in the 1920s, the Lockers in the 1970s, the Electric Boogaloo in the late 1970s, Breaking in the early 1980s, and Krumping in the 2000s. The document lists over 20 citations from books and other sources on the history and culture of breakdancing and related dance forms.

1. c. 1920
Cakewalk

2. The Lockers
c. 1971

3. Electric Boogalos
c. 1977

4. c. 1982
Breaking

5. Krumping
c. 2000

6. Citations
“Breakdancing History.” Breakdancing Ninja. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
Fletcher, Tom. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business. New York: Da Capo, 1984. Print.
Heckscher, Jurretta Jordan. All the Mazes of the Dance: Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake
World from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Civil War. N.p.: n.p., 2000. Print.
Jackson, Irene V. More than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and Musicians.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Print.
Love, Bridget H. KRUMP: The New Spiritual in Afrocentric Rhetoric. N.p.: n.p., 2007. Print.
Mahar, William J. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Poputlar Culture.
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999. Print.
Malnig, Julie. Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. Urbana:
University of Illinois, 2009. Print.
Minton, Sandra Cerny. Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation. Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics, 1997. Print.
Newton, Michael. Gangsters Encyclopedia. London: Collins & Brown, 2007. Print.
Peek, Philip M., and Kwesi Yankah. African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.
Ross, Frank Russell. Soul Dancing!: The Essential African American Cultural Dance Book. Reston,
VA: National Dance Association, 2010. Print.
Schloss, Joseph Glenn. Foundation: B-boys, B-girls, and Hip-hop Culture in New York. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
Stearns, Marshall Winslow., and Jean Stearns. Jazz Dance; the Story of American Vernacular Dance.
New York: Macmillan, 1968. Print.
Thomas, Richard. 2006 European Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement on October 26,
2006 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Eindhoven: Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity, 2006. 12. Print.
Tufnell, Miranda, and Chris Crickmay. Body, Space, Image: Notes towards Improvisation and Performance.
London: Dance, 1993. Print.