上學(xué)期hiphop culture課上看的，印象非常深刻。昨天吃飯的時(shí)候聽(tīng)podcast講到最近很火的街舞節(jié)目，包括這街和美國(guó)新做的lengendary。近幾年街舞的風(fēng)靡和大眾化確實(shí)讓人吃驚，節(jié)目里吐槽lengendary將 underground ballroom culture通過(guò)娛樂(lè)的形式展現(xiàn)出來(lái)，實(shí)在與原本的houses相差太遠(yuǎn)。于是隨即想起這部紀(jì)錄片，記錄了90年代紐約地下ballroom community的誕生和發(fā)展。當(dāng)時(shí)的非裔、拉丁裔等少數(shù)族裔性少數(shù)群體為了在生存舉步維艱的社會(huì)尋找慰藉和歸宿創(chuàng)辦了houses和變裝舞會(huì)

Pepper LaBeija: This is white America. Any other nationality that is not of the white set, knows this and accepts this till the day they die. That is everybody's dream and ambition as a minority - to live and look as well as a white person. It is pictured as being in America. Every media you have; from TV to magazines, to movies, to films... I mean, the biggest thing that minority watches is what? "Dynasty" and "The Colbys". Umm, "All My Children" - the soap operas. Everybody has a million-dollar bracket. When they showing you a commercial from Honey Grahams to Crest, or Lestoil or Pine-sol - everybody's in their own home. The little kids for Fisher Price toys; they're not in no concrete playground. They're riding around the lawn. The pool is in the back. This is white America. And when it comes to the minorities; especially black - we as a people, for the past 400 years - is the great…

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