From Mambo To Hip Hop - A Bronx Tale.
Style Wars is the legendary hip-hop documentary and a timeless film classic the indispensable record of a golden age of youthful creativity and exploding hip-hop subculture. The urban landscape has been physically transformed by graffiti artists. They invented a new visual language to express both their individuality and the voice of their community.Style Wars captures the look and feel of New Yorks ramshackle subway system as the graffiti writers' public playground battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means possible were Mayor Edward Koch the police and the New York Transit Authority. Meanwhile MCs DJ's and B-Boys were rocking the city with new sounds and new moves as street corner breakdance battles became performance art.
Flyin' Cut Sleeves completed in 1993 portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher the film's co-producer who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960's and early 1970's became intimately involved with the gangs their leaders and the leaders' families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets set against a backdrop of uprooted families cultural alienation drugs and violence.
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