브레이크댄스 배틀의 사회적 의미

Abstract

The study is to understand the feature of breakdance battle and appreciate its social significance. It was derived from battles of gangs but it is based on the culture looking for respect and peace. It features ‘Judge Show’, a performance of judges to prove what they have achieved before they judge. The participants in a battle can raise objections by ‘Call Out’, a culture that they call the judges out to compete. ‘Respect’ is a culture to understand the values of the others and accept what they have got. It represents the judges and the participants evaluate each other and they have a horizontal relationship rather than vertical because they all want to be appreciated as dancers. The battle stage becomes a channel of communication through which caution and hostility melt down and they feel the sense of unity as dancers. Its culture seeking respect and peace has a significant potential to be socially broadened. Its transparency and fairness also breaks down unreasonable conditions of the society and presents chances that they are all evaluated under the equal. The study might guide us to find out respect, peace, horizontal relationship, communication, transparency and fairness socially and significantly emerged from breakdance battle.