{"id":533,"date":"2006-10-20T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/10\/20\/friday-night-videos-breakin\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:04:33","slug":"friday-night-videos-breakin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Breakin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dirty Vegas: Days Go By (2002)<\/b><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UVzGrpstu0g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UVzGrpstu0g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why I find this video so poignant, and yet I do. Besides, the two dancers are rad.<\/p>\n<p><b>Malcom McLaren: Buffalo Gals (1982)<\/b><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k0LRpyDx2PU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k0LRpyDx2PU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amusing that Buffalo Gals, the first breakdancing video shown on MTV, was a product of a white guy &#8212; from the UK, no less! I guess if raiding black culture for the white mainstream was okay for Elvis, it was okay for Malcom McLaren. It&#8217;s also interesting that Buffalo Gals takes a song that came from the blackface minstrel tradition and that later became used in squaredancing and turns it into a hip-hop song. This video is just one giant layer cake of juxtaposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Vegas: Days Go By (2002) I have no idea why I find this video so poignant, and yet I do. Besides, the two dancers are rad. Malcom McLaren: Buffalo Gals (1982) It&#8217;s amusing that Buffalo Gals, the first breakdancing video shown on MTV, was a product of a white guy &#8212; from the UK, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Videos: Breakin&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}