Residual Cultures in Our Lives Part II

Hello everybody! Bboy N-dure here once again on the Suburbaknightz Blog! Today's post will be a rather short one because I believe I have covered the import part about residual cultures in bboying in the previous post. So today's post is mainly going to be like a recap and application!

So if you have read the first part to this article, you should already be familiar with the terms framework of intelligibility and residual culture. And previous I stated that one should embrace the crashing incidents during practice and think of creative ways to get out of it. Through time, you can easily accumulate tens and maybe hundreds of ways to get out of a single crash!

But what does that have to do with residual culture?

Let us recap quickly! Residual culture means the remnant of the past that can still be seeing in the present and dominant culture, or mainstream.

That means, whatever you do in the present day on the dance floor is BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU BUILT ON IN THE PAST! You learn how to initiate a set; you know how to transition from toprock to downrock; you know how to do power moves; you know how to properly end your set, etc. All these feats you can accomplish is all because you have the experience, or residual culture, from the past practices that gave you the knowledge to do what you can do and will do!

Hence, my continual emphasis on practicing thoroughly and "correctly" is understandable.

The way you practice also affects your framework of intelligibility. This is how people find ways to make variations out of moves! Play around with your moves and experiment ways you can make it your own. By doing so, your framework of intelligibility will be different from another's framework of intelligibility. Hence, the difference in styles.

Well, that pretty much summed up everything I have to say regarding the topic. This is just a connection I made when studying up for a class. Hope you guys will find it interesting!

Cheers!

N-dure