So, is there a distinctively American bosh?
So, is there a distinctively American equivalent to bosh? Seems to me that snap and bubblecrunk and Houston's screwed 'n' chopped thing and whatever it is they call the stuff from Memphis all have potential but are probably too not-completely unearnest underneath and just not hysterically boshin' enough. The closest to a bosh equivalent might be
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i really think the 'five beats long in four-four music' point is very important: I found jumpstyle vids very confusing, at first, because i really think in terms of bars and phrases, and while it was clear to me they were jumping on the beat I couldn't work out what the pattern was, what the point of repetition was. (as a child i had the same problem with the 'saturday night' dance, which is five moves long over four-bar phrases, so only after five repetitions are you back with the first bar of the phrase). I always think of four-four as stressing the first beat: that part of the appeal of house is the way that if you drop out you can always find your place, not just within the bar but within the phrase, not just within the phrase but within the section, not just within the section but within the whole track, not just within the track but within the set. But jumpstyle dancing starts on the first beat and then deliberately shifts out of phase: the only authority it recognises is each individual beat, and the pre-arranged set of jumps that are going to be made.
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Actually, this is fascinating. How would you compare jumpstyle to juke? I was going to say that the latter seemed to have way more subtlety and variation, with motions that are just as precise but don't look nearly as rigid. But the five-beat dance against a four-beat rhythm of jumpstyle is fascinating, as I just said - throws counterrhythm into the works.
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