Street music colors the city with its surprising chords and performances. A kind of unexpected soundtrack that shapes our "gray" drifts through urban space. Street music, from the ephemeral, is capable of "creating" humanized and intimate urban spaces by generating a feeling of belonging and identity through art.
Street music colors the city with its surprising chords and performances. A kind of unexpected soundtrack that shapes our "gray" drifts through urban space. Street music, from the ephemeral, is capable of "creating" humanized and intimate urban spaces by generating a feeling of belonging and identity through art.
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.