The largest stereotype going around about young black boys is that they will end up either dead or in prison. Unfortunately in current events, this stereotype is very true. However, in American pop culture, bopping, a new dance has decreased the black male incarceration rate and death rate in Chicago last year. Bopping can come from all ages, sizes, and genders. Bopping was really first called ditty bopping by a gang called gangster disciples. Then two kids who goes by the name of lil kemo and dlow started doing backyard, street, and basement videos and people really paid attention to the moves. We chose bopping because it keeps people occupied, and it brings people together. It also keeps young people, especially young black men, off of the streets. The better your moves the bigger your crowd. Parents started booking the bopkingz to come to birthday parties and schools called to book for events, and all the kids looked up to them and wanted to be like them. So if you cannot beat em join em. As time progressed lots of others joined the bopping movement and started uploading videos, and the bopping epidemic just blew out of proportion. Then last year dlow made a bop shuffle called the dlow shuffle which blew up overnight all over the world. Everyone love it and it got him instant fame and recognition. That caused more people to try and invent new shuffles and that got more and more black boys off the streets, and out the ground. Bopping has shaped the black American culture in the toughest neighborhoods, and it is just a matter of time before the death rates, and the amounts of black men locked up decrease. People say bopping is a way to express emotion or even to get a little exercise in, so choose how you want to bop.
Bopping is not just one dance. It is a type of dance. This means there is one basic style but not just one move. You can bop to almost any song, even if it looks funny. Bopping can be incorporated with a lot of other dances, new or old. Bopping makes you think fast and move fast. You are exercising your mind and body. Bopping gives you the opportunity to be creative. It gives you the opportunity to create your own moves or a combination of your own moves. Showing off your nice dance skills and your creativity is not the only opportunity you are opening up for yourself. You are opening up the opportunity to do something positive and get fame and fortune from it. You are creating opportunities for others, believe it or not. You are making a dance popular in your area or continuing the popularity. Someone may like what you are doing and end up joining you and making more opportunities as well. So they are practicing this dance instead of being buried or locked up. This dance started as just a dance but turned into something more. It is a way to keep kids and young adults, especially young black males, off of the streets. Bopping adds to our course conversations and our understanding of America’s popular pop culture in a few ways. It makes us understand that popular culture is such a broad thing, and it can affect us positively or negatively. Bopping is just a piece of our popular culture that positively affects a large portion of us. This also lets us know that we follow popular culture. This dance is a movement. A positive movement. A stop the violence movement. It can also be a bringing us together movement. It started as a simple dance and pop culture and it’s followers made it more.
No comments:
Post a Comment