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improvisational dancing. Contests developed in which the best dancers created
break dancing, a style with a repertoire of acrobatic and occasionally airborne
moves, including gravity-defying headspins and backspins.
Hip-hop has 3 category : old school, middle school and new school.
As the century turned, the music industry entered into a crisis, brought on
by the advent of digital downloading. Hip-hop suffered at least as severely as or
worse than other genres, with sales tumbling throughout the decade.
Simultaneously, though, it solidified its standing as the dominant influence on
global youth culture. Even the massively popular “boy bands,” such as
the
Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, drew heavily on hip-hop sounds and
styles, and thytm and blues and even gospel had adapted so fully to the newer