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Article: News Feature: Hip Hop makes its way into south China
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 25, 2004
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News Feature: Hip Hop makes its way into south Chinaby Xinhua
writers Hu Lujie, Lai Shaofen
GUANGZHOU, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- In north China, groups of brightly
clad grey heads can often be seen performing graceful and lovely
Yangge dance, a popular folk dance native to northern and
northwestern China, to the accompaniment of high-pitched drumbeats
and cymbals in parks, on squares or open grounds along roadside is
ubiquitous.
In south China, however, the streets are often full of youngsters
listening to popular hip hop music and "break dancing," an athletic
and dynamic style of dancing favored by black teenagers in US cities
in the 1980s.
At the stage erected in Chaoliu Plaza on the ...