Description
Booktitle: Mouvement. Du terrain vague au dance floor, 1984-89
Autors: Marc Boudet, Jay One Ramier
Photos: Yoshi Omori
Paperback
Published: 2012, second editon 2014
Pages: 192
Language: French, English
Dimensions: 30.5 x 22 x 2 cm. / 12 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch.
Movement: From wasteland to dancefloor, 1984-1989″.
Through the sublime period shots of Yoshi Omori and the words of Marc Boudet and Jay One Ramier, Mouvement is a poignant testimony of the first hours of glory of Parisian Hip-Hop and an exceptional archive of the graffiti scene of the early 80s.
Between 1984 and 1989, on the wasteland of Stalingrad, hip-hop made its mark: Jay One, Bando and Ash on graffiti, Dee Nasty on turntables. In the evening, everyone meets at the Globo, where Afrika Bambaataa and Public Enemy observe the beginnings of Claude MC, Joey Starr and Stomy Bugsy. The young Japanese Yoshi Omori photographed the dancers, the MCs, the lascar poses, but above all the warm and nervous atmosphere of what everyone then called the Movement. These images remained unpublished are now compiled in.
“Movement”. This rare book offers an unprecedented insight into the advent of rap and graffiti in Paris and its region, from the years 84 to 89.
There are the legends rehashed. And there are those whose history has not yet been written enough. This is the case of the birth of rap and graffiti in France. Between 1984 and 1989, what is not yet called hip hop, but
Mouvement, explodes. In Paris and the suburbs, the youth of the abandoned neighborhoods seize it and carry it towards
recognition and glory.
“Movement. From the wasteland to the dance floor” offers a unique dive into this hitherto little-documented phenomenon. The unpublished photos of the time, captured by a young Japanese freshly landed, Yoshi Omori, and the texts of key actors, Jay One Ramier and Marc Boudet, revive the emergence of these artistic practices cultivated by a wild youth, free and creative.
Rarely has a movement lived up to its name so well, mutant and spreading like no other at the time. The 150 photos of the book are the imperishable traces, capturing the effervescence that unfolds from the wastelands of Stalingrad to the dance floors of the Globo.
Heterogeneous phenomena where social diversity still has the right to quote, hip hop and graffiti become the rallying points of a generation. Quickly mingle with the evenings sons of good family and those who are already “people”: Jean Paul Gaultier, the Rita Mitsouko, the creator Azzedine Alaïa … Driven by the creation of new radio stations – including Radio Nova – and word of mouth, hip hop finally extended its hold on the capital and France… ” – 90bpm.com
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