At a recent school dance in rural Amador County, he said, administrators eliminated from his playlist most songs that included the word "back" - slang for a woman's buttocks - in the title, from Sir Mix-A-Lot's decade-and-half-old "Baby Got Back" to the modern club hit "Lean Back" by the Terror Squad. "It's a bigger deal because it's happening at the schools where you don't expect to see it," Miguel Fonseca, known as DJ Hightop on the Bay Area school dance circuit.įonseca, 36, said he's seen schools take increasingly strict stances on explicit hip-hop dancing styles. Since September, more than a half-dozen suburban Bay Area schools have adopted or started drafting policies that ban freak dancing - grinding in sexually explicit positions, typically with the girl's back to the boy's front - from school-sponsored events.Īdministrators say the trend is not an assault on hip-hop, but an effort to traverse the thin line between students' freedom of expression and their parents' standards of appropriateness. Some school administrators have added grills - metal caps worn over the teeth that rappers popularized as a symbol of wealth - to their lists of illicit preteen and adolescent attire. Northern California suburban schools are increasingly clamping down on the most controversial elements of the trend, drawing a mixture of applause and resistance from students and parents. "He always wants to listen to rap and no other type of music."įrom X-rated lyrics on the playground to freak dancing at the prom, hip-hop culture has infiltrated schools at every grade and in every neighborhood. Things I can't relate to," said Nicholas' mother, Gail Martin, who has started listening to and reading articles about hip hop to better understand her son's tastes. "I personally am having a problem with things my first-grader is coming home with.
But from his first day of kindergarten, Nicholas started using slang that his parents knew he didn't learn at home.
His parents introduced him to classical and jazz music as a toddler. Others, in the interest of intergenerational solidarity, have formed hip hop clubs in which students perform choreographed dances or freestyle rap under adult supervision.Įric Luse / SFChronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less Suburban schools are increasingly clamping down on the most controversial elements of the trend, drawing a mixture of applause and resistance from students and parents.
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Others, in the interest of intergenerational solidarity, have formed hip hop clubs in which students perform choreographed dances or freestyle rap under adult supervision.Įric Luse / SFChronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less 5 of6 hiphop05_0062_el.JPG Berkeley High School Senior Sharick Gums,17 along with co-senior Mia Brooks,17, (not in this photo) teach Cragmont Elementary students how to hip-hop dance From X-rated lyrics on the playground to freak dancing at prom, hip-hop culture has infiltrated schools at every grade and in every neighborhood. (contact afterschool program coordinator Angela at 51) Photographer:Įric Luse / SFChronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less 2 of6 - Eric Luse Show More Show Lessģ of6 4 of6 hiphop05_0130_el.JPG Berkeley High School Senior Sharick Gums,17 teaches Cragmont Elementary student Tamisha Bradley,11, how to hip-hop dance From X-rated lyrics on the playground to freak dancing at prom, hip-hop culture has infiltrated schools at every grade and in every neighborhood. ***YOU'RE GOING TO Cragmont Elementary in Berkeley to shoot an afterschool hip hop class from 4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Others, in the interest of intergenerational solidarity, have formed hip hop clubs in which students perform choreographed dances or freestyle rap under adult supervision. (solid red) during a class on learning how to hip-hop dance.įrom X-rated lyrics on the playground to freak dancing at prom, hip-hop culture has infiltrated schools at every grade and in every neighborhood. (Foreground) Berkeley High School Senior Mia Brooks,17, teaches Cragmont Elementary student Yorsi Castro-Salgaldo,8.
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