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American hip-hop culture found its way into New Zealand in the 1980s, and remained an important urban phenomenon in the 2000s. Here two boys display their break-dancing skills to a crowd of onlookers in Manners Mall, Wellington.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1984/0163/31-F
by John Nicholson
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